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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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EXTENSIBILITY n.
The quality of being extensible; the capacity of being extended; as, the extensibility of a fiber, or of a plate of metal.
EXTERNALITY n. 2 definitions
separation from the perceiving mind. Pressure or resistance necessarily supposes externality in the thing which presses or resists. A. Smith.
EXTERRITORIALITY n. 2 definitions
The state of being beyond the limits of a country.
EXTRATERRITORIALITY n. 2 definitions
The state of being beyond the limits of a particular territory; esp. (Internat. Law),
EXTRINSICALITY; EXTRINSICALNESS n.
The state or quality of being extrinsic.
EXUVIABILITY n.
Capability of shedding the skin periodically. Craig.
FACILITATE v.
less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.
FACILITATION n.
The act of facilitating or making easy.
FACILITY n. 5 definitions
The quality of being easily performed; freedom from difficulty; ease; as, the facility of an operation. The facility with which government has been overturned in France. Burke .
FALLIBILITY n.
The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.
FANTASTICALITY n.
Fantastically. [Obs.]
FARCILITE n.
Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.
FATALITY n. 3 definitions
essity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South.
FAYALITE n.
A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.
FEASIBILITY n.
The quality of being feasible; practicability; also, that which is feasible; as, before we adopt a plan, let us consider its feasibility. Men often swallow falsities for truths, dubiosities for certainties, possibilities for feasibilities. Sir T. Browne.
FEMINALITY n.
Feminity.
FEODALITY n.
Feudal tenure; the feudal system. See Feudality. Burke.
FERMENTABILITY n.
Capability of fermentation.
FERTILITATE v.
To fertilize; to fecundate. Sir T. Browne.
FERTILITY n.
The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile invention; quickness; readiness; as, the fertility of soil, or of imagination. "fertility of resource." E. Everett. And all her husbandry doth lie on heaps Corrupting in its own fertilit…
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