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Not liable to exception or rejection. Sir W. Hamilton.

Not liable to relapse; secure. Dr. H. More.

Not capable of being replevied.

Lapsible. Cudworth.

Such as can be leased.

That can be licensed.

Such as can be lost.

Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.

passed, traveled, navigated, traversed, penetrated, or the like; as, the roads are not passable; the stream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

The quality of being passable.

Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable. Wyclif (2 Tim. ii. 15).

consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged. Locke.

Capable of being raised.

Capable of being refused; admitting of refusal.

pable of being repaid; repayable. A loan has been made of two millions of dollars, reimbursable in ten years. A. Hamilton.

That may be released.

Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.

That may be revised.

Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.