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Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

Capable of being boiled or digested.

Capable of being resolved into constituent elements.

Capable of being decompounded.

Capable of being decreed.

Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence. All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke.

Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning.

Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible. All knowledge of causes is deductive. Glanvill. Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process. Whewell.

Capable of being wearied or tired out. [R.] Glanvill.

Liable to defeasance; capable of being made void or forfeited.

Capable of being annulled or made void; as, a defeasible title. -- De*fea"si*ble*ness, n.

Capable of being defended; defensible. [R.]

Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. -- De*fin"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being deflected.

Capable of being blotted out or erased. "An impression easily deleble." Fuller.

Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.

Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.