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Subject to homage. Howell.

Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak.

The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction.

Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable rites. To where you taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. Goldsmith.

The quality of being hospitable; hospitality. Barrow.

Capable of being husbanded, or managed with economy. Sherwood.

Capable of forming a hybrid, or of being subjected to a hybridizing process; capable of producing a hybrid by union with another species or stock. Hybridizable genera are rarer than is generally supposed, even in gardens where they are so often operated upon, under circumstances most favorable to the production of hybr…

Capable of being identified.

Not lacerable; incapable of being torn or rent. [Obs.]

Incapable of weeping. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.] Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.

Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.

Not laudable; not praise-worthy; worthy of censure or disapprobation. Milton. -- Il*laud"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Broome.

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Incapable of being limited or bounded; immeasurable; limitless; boundless; as, illimitable space. The wild, the irregular, the illimitable, and the luxuriant, have their appropriate force of beauty. De Quincey.

Capable of being illuminated.

Liable to illusion.

Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.

That may be imaged. [R.]

Capable of being imagined; conceivable. Men sunk into the greatest darkness imaginable. Tillotson. -- Im*ag"i*na*ble*ness, n. -- Im*ag"i*na*bly, adv.