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Capability of being infused, pouredin, or instilled.

The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.

Capability of being mixed.

Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.

Capability of motion; contractility.

Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

Quality of being organizable; capability of being organized.

Capability of being converted into an oxide.

The quality, state, or capability, of being affected by something external; sensation; sensibility. [Obs.] This experiment discovereth perception in plants. Bacon.

Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

The capability of assuming different forms; the capability of widely varying in form.

The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] Barrow.

potent; physical or moral power; inherent strength; energy; ability to effect a purpose; capability; efficacy; influence. "Drugs of potency." Hawthorne. A place of potency and away o' the state. Shak.

The quality or state of being potential; possibility, not actuality; inherent capability or disposition, not actually exhibited.

herent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power. "One next himself in power, and next in crime." Milton.…

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

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

which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the power of evoking out of unconsciousness one portion of our retained knowledge in preference to another, we posses the faculty of representing in consciousness what is…

Capability of being saved.

The capability in plants of fertilizing or of being fertilized; as, staminate and pistillate flowers are of opposite sexes.