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Capable of being prognosticated or foretold. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.

Capable of being prolonged; as, life is prolongable by care. Each syllable being a prolongable quantity. Rush.

Capable of being pronounced.

Capable of being propagated, or of being continued or multiplied by natural generation or production.

Capable of being propitiated.

Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.…

Capable of being prorated, or divided proportionately. [U.S.]

Capable of being prosecuted; liable to prosecution.

Capable of being protracted, or protruded; protrusile.

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

Capable of being protruded; protrusile.

Capable of being proved; demonstrable. -- Prov"a*ble*ness, n. -- Prov"a*bly, adv.

mic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvæ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Pædogenesis.

The earliest age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

Capable of being published; suitable for publication.

Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

Capable of pulsating; throbbing. Sir H. Wotton. .

Capable of being reduced to fine powder. Boyle.

Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness, n.