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ts; that makes the effect to be what it is; actively operative; not inactive, slack, or incapable; characterized by energetic and useful activity; as, an efficient officer, power. The efficient cause is the working cause. Wilson.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.

e power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

Capable of occasioning the phenomena of electricity; as, an electric or electrical machine or substance.

Capable of receiving electricity, or of being charged with it.

Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.

An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.

Capable of being eluded; evadible.

Capable of being employed; capable of being used; fit or proper for use. Boyle.

Capable of being purchased.

Capable of being emulated. [R.] Some imitable and emulable good. Abp. Leighton.

Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable. [Obs.]

Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.

Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.

Capable of imparting or exercising energy. Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley.

Capable of being enforced.

Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.

Capable of being enjoyed or of giving joy; yielding enjoyment. Milton.

constantly enjoyed and claimed, as that it needed not enrolling. Milton. All the citizen capable of bearing arms enrolled themselves. Prescott.

Capable of being enticed.