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Inextinguishable. -- Un`ex*tin"guish*a*bly, adv.

Imperishable.

Imperishably.

That may be vanquished.

Capable of being washed without damage to fabric or color.

Capable or worthy of being wished for; desirable. Udall.

Acquiescence or concurrence in a statement made by another, and distinguishable from a confession in that an admission presupposes prior inquiry by another, but a confession may be made without such inquiry.

A hard, highly polishable composition, made of fine sawdust from hard wood (as rosewood) mixed with blood, and pressed.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

Perishable; frail; transitory. [Obs.] Hickes. The caduke pleasures of his world. Bp. Fisher.

aving reference to, or involving, the forfeiture of the head or life; affecting life; punishable with death; as, capital trials; capital punishment. Many crimes that are capital among us. Swift. To put to death a capital offender. Milton.

Capable or deserving of chastisement; punishable. Sherwood.

Deserving chastisement; punishable. [Obs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

e tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall. Spenser. Capital crime, a crime punishable with death.

Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton.

Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.

Able to endure or continue in a particular condition; lasting; not perishable or changeable; not wearing out or decaying soon; enduring; as, durable cloth; durable happiness. Riches and honor are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness. Prov. viii. 18. An interest which from its object and grounds must be so dur…

In the act of dying; destined to death; mortal; perishable; as, dying bodies.

The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.