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y to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.

The quality of being reversible. Tyndall.

Capable of being reversed; as, a chair or seat having a reversible back; a reversible judgment or sentence.

In a reversible manner.

The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott.

laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More.

Capable of being cut or divided by a sharp instrument. [R.] con.

The quality or state of being sensible, or capable of sensation; capacity to feel or perceive.

Capable of being perceived by the senses; apprehensible through the bodily organs; hence, also, perceptible to the mind; making an impression upon the sense, reason, or understanding; sensible resistance. Air is sensible to the touch by its motion. Arbuthnot. The disgrace was more sensible than the pain. Sir W. Temple.…

The quality or state of being sensible; sensibility; appreciation; capacity of perception; susceptibility. "The sensibleness of the eye." Sharp. "Sensibleness and sorrow for sin." Hammond. The sensibleness of the divine presence. Hallywell.

In a sensible manner; so as to be perceptible to the senses or to the mind; appreciably; with perception; susceptibly; sensitively. What remains past cure, Bear not too sensibly. Milton.

responsible; worthy of credit. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Capable of being persuaded; easily persuaded.

Susceptible of subdivision.

Deeper than the reach of the senses. "That subsensible world." Tyndall.

Beyond the reach of the senses; above the natural powers of perception.

That may be suppressed.

The quality or state of being suspensible.

Capable of being suspended; capable of being held from sinking.

The quality or state of being tensible; tensility.