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Capable of being enunciated or expressed.

Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

Capable of being ascribed to different motives, or of signifying opposite feelings, purposes, or characters; deserving to be suspected; as, his actions are equivocal. "Equivocal repentances." Milton.

Capable of being eradicated.

Capable of being erased.

Capable of being erected; as, an erectable feather. Col. G. Montagu.

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated. Erectile tissue (Anat.), a tissue which is capable of being greatly dilated and made rigid by the distension of the numerous blood vessels which it contains.

Capable of being erected. [Obs.]

Capable of being estimated or valued; as, estimable damage. Paley. .

Inclined, or able, to estimate; serving for, or capable of being used in, estimating. We find in animals an estimative or judicial faculty. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being evaded. [R.]

Capable of being converted into vapor, or dissipated by evaporation.

Not odd; capable of division by two without a remainder; -- said of numbers; as, 4 and 10 are even numbers. Whether the number of the stars is even or odd. Jer. Taylor. On even ground, with equal advantage. -- On even keel (Naut.), in a level or horizontal position.

Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale. --E*vin"ci*bly, adv.

The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self- nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex.

Capable of being examined or inquired into. Bacon.

Capable of exceeding or surpassing. [Obs.] Sherwood.

Capable of being exchanged; fit or proper to be exchanged. The officers captured with Burgoyne were exchangeable within the powers of General Howe. Marshall.

Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.

. Capable of being excoriated. The scaly covering of fishes, . . . even in such as are excoriatable. Sir T. Browne.