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7,129 words match “ABLE”

CREATABLE a.
That may be created.
CREDITABLE a. 3 definitions
Worthy of belief. [Obs.] Divers creditable witnesses deposed. Ludlow.
CREDITABLENESS n.
The quality of being creditable.
CRITICISABLE a.
Capable of being criticised.
CRUMMABLE a.
Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.
CRYSTALLIZABLE a.
Capable of being crystallized; that may be formed into crystals.
CULPABLE a. 2 definitions
inal. State Trials (1413). If he acts according to the best reason he hath, he is not culpable, though he be mistaken in his measures. Sharp.
CULTIVABLE a.
Capable of being cultivated or tilled. Todd.
CULTIVATABLE a.
Cultivable.
CULTURABLE a.
Capable of, or fit for, being cultivated; capable or becoming cultured. London Spectator.
CURABLE a.
Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.
CUSTOMABLE a. 2 definitions
Subject to the payment of customs; dutiable.
CUSTOMABLENESS n.
Quality of being customable; conformity to custom. [Obs.]
DAMAGEABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo.
DAMNABLE a. 2 definitions
Liable to damnation; deserving, or for which one deserves, to be damned; of a damning nature. A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth, And to transport him in the mind hi is, Were damnable. Shak.
DAMNABLENESS n.
The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.
DATABLE a.
That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date. "Datable almost to a year." The Century.
DEBATABLE a.
Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable question. The Debatable Land or Ground, a tract of land between the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and Scotland; the Batable Ground.
DECEIVABLE a. 2 definitions
Fitted to deceive; deceitful. [Obs.] The fraud of deceivable traditions. Milton.
DECEIVABLENESS n. 2 definitions
Capability of deceiving. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thess. ii. 10.
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