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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,430 words match “CAPABLE”

DISCERPIBLE; DISCERPTIBLE a.

Capable of being discerped. [R.]

DISCIPLINABLE a.

Capable of being disciplined or improved by instruction and training.

DISCOUNTABLE a.

Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.

DISCOURAGEABLE a.

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

DISCOVERABLE a.

Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.

DISCRIMINABLE a.

Capable of being discriminated. [Obs.] Bailey.

DISFRANCHISE v.

lliam was disfranchised. Fabyan (1509). He was partially disfranchised so as to be made incapable of taking part in public affairs. Thirlwall.

DISINTEGRABLE a.

Capable of being disintegrated, or reduced to fragments or powder. Argillo-calcite is readily disintegrable by exposure. Kirwan.

DISINTERESTEDNESS n.

impartiality. That perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which man seems to be incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay.

DISPENSABLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being dispensed or administered.

DISPLACEABLE a.

Capable of being displaced.

Capable of being disproved or refuted. Boyle.

Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. Actions, every one of which is very disputable. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being dissected, or separated by dissection. Paley.

Capable of being scattered or dissipated. [R.] The heat of those plants is very dissipable. Bacon.

DISSOLUBLE a. 2 definitions

Capable of being dissolved; having its parts separable by heat or moisture; convertible into a fluid. Woodward.

Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble. -- Dis*solv"a*ble*ness, n. Though everything which is compacted be in its own nature dissolvable. Cudworth. Such things as are not dissolvable by the moisture of the tongue. Sir I. Newton.

A remedy supposed capable of dissolving concretions in the body, such as calculi, tubercles, etc.

Capable of being distended or dilated.

Distending, or capable of being distended.