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controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

State of being disputable.

The state of being disreputable. [R.]

Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane. Why should you think that conduct disreputable in priests which you probably consider as laudable in yourself Bp…

In a disreputable manner.

Want of respectability. Thackeray.

Not respectable; disreputable. M. Arnold.

Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.

That can be tamed. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Worthy of being feared; redoubtable. [Obs.]

Liable to be doubted; uncertain. [R.] Dr. H. More. -- Du"bi*ta*bly, adv. [R.]

Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.

The superstructure which lies horizontally upon the columns. See Illust. of Column, Cornice.

See Entablature. [R.] Evelyn.

That may be entreated.

; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equitable distribution of an estate; equitable men. No two . . . had exactly the same notion of what was equitable. Macaulay.

The quality of being equitable, just, or impartial; as, the equitableness of a judge, a decision, or distribution of property.

In an equitable manner; justly; as, the laws should be equitably administered.

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

Liable to escheat.