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Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.

Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. Locke.

Capable of being drawn aside or distracted.

Capable of being, or liable to be, distrained. Blackstone.

Capable of being distributed. Sir W. Jones.

is said to be distributed when it is taken universal, so as to stand for everything it is capable of being applied to. Whately.

Capable of various forms; multiform. Eloquence is a great and diverse thing. B. Jonson.

Capable of being diversified or varied. Boyle.

Capable of being diverted.

Capable of being divested.

Capable of being divided; divisible.

The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

Capable of being divided or separated. Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. Divisible contract (Law), a contract containing agreements one of which can be separated from the other. -- Divisible offense (Law), an offense containing a lesser offense in one of a greater grade, so that on the…

Capable of being divorced.

Incapable of being divorced or separated; free from divorce.

Capable of being done. Carlyle.

Capable of being tamed; tamable.

Capable of being donated or given. [R.]

sleeping room, or a building containing a series of sleeping rooms; a sleeping apartment capable of containing many beds; esp., one connected with a college or boarding school. Thackeray.

n old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. Macaulay.