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Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.

of so great a difficulty, the exact performance thereof we may rather wish than look for. Hooker.

Leisurely. [Obs.] Hooker.

glory of God and the good of his church . . . ought to be the mark whereat we also level. Hooker. She leveled at our purposes. Shak.

Lightly; cheaply. Hooker.

Gay; airy; cheering; exhilarating. That lightsome affection of joy. Hooker. -- Light"some*ly, adv. -- Light"some*ness, n. Happiness may walk soberly in dark attire, as well as dance lightsomely in a gala dress. Hawthorne.

nd limitations all principles have in regard of the matter whereunto they are applicable. Hooker.

loweth where it listeth. John iii. 8. Them that add to the Word of God what them listeth. Hooker. Let other men think of your devices as they list. Whitgift.

sing of God's wrath were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations of the Latin. Hooker.

A middle course between the rigor of literal translations and the liberty of paraphrasts. Hooker.

c matter to which its fertility is chiefly due. We wash a wall of loam; we labor in vain. Hooker.

Clear; evident; luminous. " Most luculent testimonies." Hooker.

here is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. Hooker. A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. Hayward.

ake up with, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.] -- To make with, to concur or agree with. Hooker.

A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker.

To celebrate Mass. [Obs.] Hooker.

. Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] Hooker.

names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

l. "Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker.