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Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] "Well and covenably." Chaucer.

The earliest abode; original dwelling place; originals; as, the cunabula of the human race.

The quality of being damnable; damnableness. Sir T. More.

A creature unprepared unmeet for dealth, And to transport him in the mind hi is, Were damnable. Shak.

The state or quality of deserving damnation; execrableness. The damnableness of this most execrable impiety. Prynne.

In a manner to incur sever

Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech.

Capable of being defined, limited, or explained; determinable; describable by definition; ascertainable; as, definable limits; definable distinctions or regulations; definable words. -- De*fin"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being denominated or named. Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being designated or distinctly marked out; distinguishable. Boyle.

Determined by destiny; fated. Chaucer.

In a destinable manner.

The quality of being determinable; determinableness. Coleridge.

ined, definitely ascertained, decided upon, or brought to a conclusion. Not wholly determinable from the grammatical use of the words. South.

Capability of being determined; determinability.

Liable or deserving to be disciplined; subject to disciplinary punishment; as, a disciplinable offense.

The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.

Capable of being discriminated. [Obs.] Bailey.

To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).