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134 words match “INABLE”

INDISCIPLINABLE a.
Not disciplinable; undisciplinable. [R.]
INEXPLAINABLE a.
Incapable of being explained; inexplicable.
INEXTERMINABLE a.
Incapable of extermination. Rush.
INIMAGINABLE a.
Unimaginable; inconceivable. [R.] Bp. Pearson.
INNOMINABLE a.
Not to be named. [R.] Testament of Love.
INOPINABLE a.
Not to be expected; inconceivable. [Obs.] "Inopinable, incredible . . . saings." Latimer.
INTERMINABLE a.
ut termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings. That wild interminable waste of waves. Grainger.
INTERMINABLENESS n.
The state of being endless.
LAMINABLE a.
said to be malleable; and when into fillets under the rolling press, it is said to be laminable. Ure.
MAINTAINABLE a.
That maybe maintained.
MEDICINABLE a.
Medicinal; having the power of healing. [Obs.] Shak.
MINABLE a.
Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. Sir T. North.
OBTAINABLE a.
Capable of being obtained.
OPINABLE a.
Capable of being opined or thought. Holland.
ORDAINABLE a.
Capable of being ordained; worthy to be ordained or appointed. Bp. Hall.
ORDINABLE a.
Capable of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.]
ORIGINABLE a.
Capable of being originated.
PAINABLE a.
sing pain; painful. [Obs.] The manacles of Astyages were not . . . the less weighty and painable for being composed of gold or silver. Evelyn.
PREDETERMINABLE a.
Capable of being determined beforehand. Coleridge.
REEXAMINABLE a.
Admitting of being reëxamined or reconsidered. Story.
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