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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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66 words match “CAPABILITY”

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

DECEIVABLENESS n.

Capability of deceiving. With all deceivableness of unrighteousness. 2 Thess. ii. 10.

DEFENSIBILITY n.

Capability of being defended.

DEFENSIBLENESS n.

Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.

DESCENDIBILITY n.

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

DETERMINABLENESS n.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

DIFFUSIBILITY n.

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

DISCERPIBILITY; DISCERPTIBILITY n.

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

ure 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.

Capability of being educated.

EFFUMABILITY n.

The capability of flying off in fumes or vapor. [Obs.] Boyle.

ENVELOPE; ENVELOP n.

to a class of machines in general, not a specific machine. push the envelope Increase the capability of some type of machine or system; -- usu. by technological development.

EXHAUSTIBILITY n.

Capability of being exhausted. I was seriously tormented by the thought of the exhaustibility of musical combinations. J. S. Mill.

EXUVIABILITY n.

Capability of shedding the skin periodically. Craig.

FERMENTABILITY n.

Capability of fermentation.

GENERABILITY n.

Capability of being generated. Johnstone.

Capability of endurance.

IMMISCIBILITY n.

Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.

INCAPABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.

INCORRUPTIBILITY n.

The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption. Holland.