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The quality or state of being perturbable.

Liable to be perturbed or agitated; liable to be disturbed or disquieted.

The doctrine of the probabiliorists.

One who holds, in opposition to the probabilists, that a man is bound to do that which is most probably right.

The doctrine of the probabilists.

One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.

The quality or state of being probable; appearance of reality or truth; reasonable ground of presumption; likelihood. Probability is the appearance of the agreement or disagreement of two ideas, by the intervention of proofs whose connection is not constant, but appears for the most part to be so. Locke.…

nclines the mind to believe, but leaves some room for doubt; likely. That is accounted probable which has better arguments producible for it than can be brought against it. South. I do not say that the principles of religion are merely probable; I have before asserted them to be morally certain. Bp. Wilkins.…

In a probable manner; in likelihood. Distinguish between what may possibly and what will probably be done. L'Estrange.

Capable of being written, or of being written upon. [R.]

Capable of being subscribed. [R.]

Not absorbable; specifically (Physiol.), not capable of absorption; unable to pass by osmosis into the circulating blood; as, the unabsorbable portion of food.

Not capable of being curbed. Shak.

Improbably.

A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

rst month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

ent Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

iginally referred to or intended. Many of those quotations from the Old Testament were probably intended as nothing more than accommodations. Paley.

A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and fill…