Search the Dictionary

Capable of being contributed.

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.

Capability of being controlled.

Cognizable; liable to be tried or judged. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.

Capable of being convened or assembled.

Qualified for conversation; disposed to converse; sociable; free in discourse. While young, humane, conversable, and kind. Cowper.

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

Capable of being conveyed or transferred. Burke.

A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them.

Capable of being corrected.

Such as can be correlated; as, correlatable phenomena.

Corruptible. [Obs.]

nsel or follow advice. [R.] Few men of so great parts were upon all occasions more counselable than he. Clarendon.

Capable of being numbered.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

Culpable. [Obs.]

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

That may be coveted; desirable.

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