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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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625 words match “ABILITY”

INFALLIBILITY n.

The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian fai…

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.

INFEASIBILITY n.

The state of being infeasible; impracticability.

surmise from facts or premises; to accept or derive, as a consequence, conclusion, or probability; to imply; as, I inferred his determination from his silence. To infer is nothing but by virtue of one proposition laid down as true, to draw in another as true. Locke. Such opportunities always infer obligations. Atterbur…

INFLAMMABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability. Boyle.

INFUSIBILITY n. 2 definitions

Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled.

Natural gift or talent; ability; wit; ingenuity. [Obs.] [Written also ingenie.] Becon.

INSANABLENESS n.

The state of being insanable; insanability; incurableness.

INSATIABLENESS n.

Greediness of appetite that can not be satisfied or appeased; insatiability. The eye of the covetous hath a more particular insatiableness. Bp. Hall.

INSCRUTABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being inscrutable; inscrutability.

INSEPARABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.

Want of sleep; inability to sleep; wakefulness; sleeplessness.

mbrace everything relative to organization, recruiting, discharge, administration, accountability for money and property, instruction, police, and discipline.

INSTABLENESS n.

Instability; unstableness.

INSUFFICIENCY n.

Want of power or skill; inability; incapacity; incompetency; as, the insufficiency of a man for an office.

INSUFFICIENT a.

Wanting in strength, power, ability, capacity, or skill; incompetent; incapable; unfit; as, a person insufficient to discharge the duties of an office.

INSURMOUNTABLENESS n.

The state or quality of being insurmountable; insurmountability.

INVERISIMILITUDE n.

Want of verisimilitude or likelihood; improbability.

INVULNERABLENESS n.

Invulnerability.

IRASCIBILITY n.

The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.