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That may be reobtained.

Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being retained.

Capable of being ruined.

Capable of being strained.

Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.

Capable of being terminated or bounded; limitable. -- Ter"mi*na*ble*ness, n. Terminable annuity, an annuity for a stated, definite number of years; -- distinguished from life annuity, and perpetual annuity.

Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue. Richardson.

Not determinable; indeterminable. Locke.

Capable of being plowed or cultivated; arable; tillable. [Obs.] Cowell.

In an abominable manner; very odiously; detestably.

That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. Antony, most large in his abominations. Shak.

Obtainable; to be got at. The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay.

The quality of being acquirable; attainableness. [R.] Paley.

Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.

A noun which has no distinction of cases; an indeclinable noun.

Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable. [Archaic] Bp. Hall.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

Abominable; as, beastly weather. [Colloq. Eng.]

y violence; to force by blustering; to bully. He bloweth and blustereth out . . . his abominable blasphemy. Sir T. More. As if therewith he meant to bluster all princes into a perfect obedience to his commands. Fuller.