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The state or quality of being susceptible; the capability of receiving impressions, or of being affected.

Intellectual ability, natural or acquired; mental endowment or capacity; skill in accomplishing; a special gift, particularly in business, art, or the like; faculty; a use of the word probably originating in the Scripture parable of the talents (Matt. xxv. 14- 30). He is chiefly to be considered in his three different…

Same as Tenability.

A writing or certificate which bears testimony in favor of one's character, good conduct, ability, etc., or of the value of a thing.

The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

m behind the moon, In dim eclipse. disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. The twilight of probability. Locke.

Inability. [Obs.] Hales.

uences powerfully, or the like, in a relation of subjection, subordination, obligation, liability, or the like; as, to travel under a heavy load; to live under extreme oppression; to have fortitude under the evils of life; to have patience under pain, or under misfortunes; to behave like a Christian under reproaches an…

Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable testimony. Burke. -- Un`im*peach"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`im*peach"a*bly, adv.

Having one degree of freedom or variability.

Inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. Milton. 'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. Pope.

The quality or state of being variable; variability. James i. 17.

The quality or state of being verisimilar; the appearance of truth; probability; likelihood. Verisimilitude and opinion are an easy purchase; but true knowledge is dear and difficult. Glanvill. All that gives verisimilitude to a narrative. Sir. W. Scott.

Versability. [R.]

he quality or state of being vitreous; glassiness, or the quality of being vitrescent; capability of conversion into glass; susceptibility of being formed into glass. Kirwan.

or tissue cells, is endowed with life, and thus enabled to manifest the phenomena of irritability, contractility, etc. McKendrick.

or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.

The quality or state of being vulnerable; vulnerability.