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Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.

Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue." Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

That may be reobtained.

Capable of being repugned or resisted. [R.] Sir T. North.

Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being retained.

egally required to be returned, delivered, given, or rendered; as, a writ or precept returnable at a certain day; a verdict returnable to the court.

Capable of being ruined.

The quality or state of being sanable; sanableness; curableness.

Capable of being healed or cured; susceptible of remedy.

The quality of being sanable.

or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Suitable to be signed; requiring signature; as, a legal document signable by a particular person.

Capable of being strained.

Violently. Holinshed.

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

That may be tanned.

The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

ded, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.…

Same as Tenability.