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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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2,189 words match “TABLE”

ATTRIBUTABLE a.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

Capable of augmentation. Walsh.

Disputable. [Obs.]

Capable of culti [Obs.] Burton.

BOATABLE a. 2 definitions

Navigable for boats, or small river craft. The boatable waters of the Alleghany. J. Morse.

CHARITABLE a. 5 definitions

Full of love and good will; benevolent; kind. Be thy intents wicked or charitable, . . . . . . I will speak to thee. Shak.

CHARITABLENESS n.

The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.

Capable of being cheated.

CHEATABLENESS n.

Capability of being cheated.

Capable of being cited.

ng brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.

COMFORTABLE a. 6 definitions

valiant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak.

COMFORTABLENESS n.

State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.

Capable of being committed.

Capable of being commuted or interchanged. The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.

COMMUTABLENESS n.

The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.

Suitable; consistent. [Obs.] "Some comportable method." Wotton.

Capable of being computed, numbered, or reckoned. Not easily computable by arithmetic. Sir M. Hale.