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Probability. [Obs.] "With as great probality." Holland.

: (a) The novitiate which a person must pass in a convent, to probe his or her virtue and ability to bear the severities of the rule. (b) The trial of a ministerial candidate's qualifications prior to his ordination, or to his settlement as a pastor. (c) Moral trial; the state of man in the present life, in which he ha…

tried; firmness or hardness that resists impression, or does not yield to force; impenetrability of physical bodies.

The state of being quaky; liability to quake.

f the manor of Dale. -- Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument. Story. -- Qualified negative (Legislation), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive…

en (1818-88); as, Raiffeisen banks, the Raiffeisen system, etc. The banks are unlimited-liability institutions making small loans at a low rate of interest, for a designated purpose, to worthy members only.

y a trades union. Coleridge . . . incurred the reproach of having ratted, solely by his inability to follow the friends of his early days. De Quincey.

so. Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. Walsh.

Capability of receiving; capacity. [Obs.] It has become a place of great receipt. Evelyn.

etimes added to the indorsement of a negotiable instrument to protect the indorser from liability to the indorsee and subsequent holders. It is a restricted indorsement.

To ransom, liberate, or rescue from captivity or bondage, or from any obligation or liability to suffer or to be forfeited, by paying a price or ransom; to ransom; to rescue; to recover; as, to redeem a captive, a pledge, and the like. Redeem Israel, O God, out of all his troubles. Ps. xxv. 22. The Almighty from the gr…

The quality or state of being redeemable; redeemability.

s over or under the contract, according to a defined schedule, and depending on the vulnerability of the side attempting the contract.

rmation or a quarantes of any kind, as in respect to one's integrity, capacity, pecuniary ability, and the like; as, I referred to his employer for the truth of his story.

The quality or capability of being reflexible; as, the reflexibility of the rays of light. Sir I. Newton.

as, a regency constituted during a king's minority, absence from the kingdom, or other disability. A council or regency consisting of twelve persons. Lowth.

ested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.

The quality or state of being relevant; pertinency; applicability. Its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore. Poe.

To rest with confidence, as when fully satisfied of the veracity, integrity, or ability of persons, or of the certainty of facts or of evidence; to have confidence; to trust; to depend; -- with on, formerly also with in. Go in thy native innocence; rely On what thou hast of virtue. Milton. On some fond breast the parti…

resistance; reluctance. Sterne. We find a renitency in ourselves to ascribe life and irritability to the cold and motionless fibers of plants. E. Darwin.