Search the Dictionary

ving an appearance of right or justice. "Colorable pretense for infidility." Bp. Stillingfleet. -- Col"or*a*ble*ness, n. -- Col"or*a*bly, adv. Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk of human justice. Hooker.

Relating to, or resembling, coma; drowsy; lethargic; as, comatose sleep; comatose fever.

become public; to appear; to be published. "It is indeed come out at last." Bp. Stillingfleet. (c) To end; to result; to turn out; as, how will this affair come out he has come out well at last.

r, especially in a contest or controversy. "To prove it against all comers." Bp. Stillingfleet.

A captain commanding a squadron, or a division of a fleet, or having the temporary rank of rear admiral.

To force to yield; to overpower; to subjugate. Easy sleep their weary limbs compelled. Dryden. I compel all creatures to my will. Tennyson.

fort. What conatus could give prickles to the porcupine or hedgehog, or to the sheep its fleece Paley.

Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful. [Obs.] A conceited chair to sleep in. Evelyn.

The act of sleeping, or of lulling, to sleep. [Obs.] Pope.

Lulled to sleep. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

n words to free ourselves either from the ignorance or malice of our enemies. Bp. Stilingfleet. And to be dull was construed to be good. Pope.

the other side. "They did it, not for want of instruction to the contrary." Bp. Stillingfleet.

y. The Jesuits did not persuade the converts to lay aside the use of images. Bp. Stillingfleet.

n, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

A vessel or fleet, or a train or trains of wagons, employed in the transportation of munitions of war, money, subsistence, clothing, etc., and having an armed escort.

ots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.

state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

Having rivaling claims; emulous; in rivalry. [R.] Bp. Fleetwood.

A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and want of sleep. Dunglison.