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The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed.

Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.

The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the customary usages of social life.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

A piece of petrified dung; a fossil excrement.

Containing, pertaining to, or of the nature of, coprolites.

A mineral substance or petrifaction, in the form of coral.

Relation to the heart. [Obs.] That the ancients had any respect of cordiality or reference unto the heart, will much be doubted. Sir T. Browne.

The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More.

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

The qualityof being corrodible. [R.] Johnson.

Corrodibility. "Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness." Boyle.

The quality of being corruptible; the possibility or liability of being corrupted; corruptibleness. Burke.

untries taste is perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

The quality of being cosmopolitan; cosmopolitism.

See Cosmopolitan.