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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,949 words match “QUALITY”

COGITABILITY n.

The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

COGNOSCIBILITY n.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.

3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.

The state or quality of being cold.

COLLECTIVITY n.

Quality or state of being collective.

COLLOIDALITY n.

The state or quality of being colloidal.

The state or quality of, or the relationship involved in, being colonial.

The state or quality of being columnar.

COMBATIVENESS n.

The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel.

COMBUSTIBILITY n.

The quality of being combustible.

wink; to get the advantage of. [Colloq.] -- To come near or nigh, to approach in place or quality to be equal to. "Nothing ancient or modern seems to come near it." Sir W. Temple. -- To come of. (a) To descend or spring from. "Of Priam's royal race my mother came." Dryden. (b) To result or follow from. "This comes of…

The quality or state of being comely. Comeliness is a disposing fair Of things and actions in fit time and place. Sir J. Davies. Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit. Milton. Comeliness signifies something less forcible than beauty, less elegant than grace, and less light than prettiness. Johnson.…

The quality of being comical; something comical.

COMMENSURABILITY n.

The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.

COMMENSURATENESS n.

The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster.

State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

COMMONPLACENESS n.

The quality of being commonplace; commonness.

COMMUNICABILITY n.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

COMMUNICATIVENESS n.

The quality of being communicative. Norris.

COMMUTABILITY n.

The quality of being commutable.