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Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised. A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.

Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenable to command. Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . not always controllable by reason. South.

Capable of being controverted; disputable; admitting of question. -- Con`tro*ver"ti*bly, adv.

Capable of being convened or assembled.

Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond.

Capable of being converted or changed.

Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey.

Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke.

Capable of being convicted. [R.] Ash.

Capable of being convinced or won over.

Capable of being corrected.

Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.

Capable of being corroded; corrosible. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being made corrupt; subject to decay. "Our corruptible bodies." Hooker. Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold. 1 Pet. i. 18.

Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.

Capable of being numbered.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

A phantasmic or "astral" body deemed to be separable from the physical body and capable of acting independently; a doppelgänger.

Capable of being created. [Obs.] I. Watts.