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Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale. -- Re*sist"i*ble*ness, n. -- Re*sist"i*bly, adv.

Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.

Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.

Having no power to resist; making no opposition. [Obs. or R.] Spenser.

A certain game at cards.

A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

Abnormal formation of flesh.

Immoderate venereal appetite in the male. Quain.

ticism; skeptical philosophy. [R.] Among their products were the system of Locke, the scepsis of Hume, the critical philosophy of kant. J. martineau.

General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude. [Obs.] Norris.

A form of articulation in which one bone is received into a groove or slit in another.

reproduction by fission. Haeckel.

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.

Hardening of the cell wall by lignification. Cerebro-spinal sclerosis (Med.), an affection in which patches of hardening, produced by increase of the neuroglia and atrophy of the true nerve tissue, are found scattered throughout the brain and spinal cord. It is associated with complete or partial paralysis, a peculiar…

A lateral curvature of the spine.

The quality or state of being self-consistent.

Consistent with one's self or with itself; not deviation from the ordinary standard by which the conduct is guided; logically consistent throughout; having each part consistent with the rest.

Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.

One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.