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Capable of being demonstrated; that can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.

Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.

That may be demurred to. Stormonth.

Capable of being, or liable to be, denied.

Capable of being denominated or named. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being denoted or marked. Sir T. Browne.

Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.

Worthy of being depended on; trustworthy. "Dependable friendships." Pope.

Worthy of being deplored or lamented; lamentable; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

State of being deplorable.

Capable of being deposed or deprived of office. Howell.

That may or should be deprecated. Paley.

Liable to depredation. [Obs.] "Made less depredable." Bacon.

Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.

That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources. All honor derivable upon me. South. The exquisite pleasure derivable from the true and beautiful relations of domestic…

That can be described; capable of description.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.