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Capability of being defended.

Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.

A low condition; weakness; inability. [R.] A dejection of appetite. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.

Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one's self. Reduced to a servile dependence on their mercy. Burke.

To deprive of phlogiston, or the supposed principle of inflammability. Priestley. Dephlogisticated air, oxygen gas; -- so called by Dr. Priestly and others of his time. -- De`phlo*gis`ti*ca"tion, n.

The quality of being descendible; capability of being transmitted from ancestors; as, the descendibility of an estate.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

ill is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is obvious. F. P. Cobbe.

The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others. [Archaic] That affliction grew heavy upon me, and weighed me down even to a diffidence of God's mercy. Donne.

The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out.

A person employed in, or skilled in, diplomacy; a diplomat. In ability, Avaux had no superior among the numerous able diplomatics whom his country then possessed. Macaulay.

Lacking ability; unable. [Obs.] "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.

Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.

bundant positive evidence are often disbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability or impossibility. J. S. Mill.

Capability or liableness to be discerped. [R.] Wollaston.

Act of relieving of something which oppresses or weighs upon one, as an obligation, liability, debt, accusation, etc.; acquittance; as, the discharge of a debtor.

of musical sounds which strikes the ear harshly or disagreeably, owing to the incommensurability of the vibrations which they produce; want of musical concord or harmony; a chord demanding resolution into a concord. For a discord itself is but a harshness of divers sounds mBacon. Apple of discord. See under Apple.…

Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.

he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.