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The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force. An antecedent argument of extreme cogency. J. H. Newman.

The quality of being cogitable; conceivableness.

Capable of being brought before the mind as a throught or idea; conceivable; thinkable. Creation is cogitable by us only as a putting forth of divine power. Sir W. Hamilton.

The state of being cognate.

Capable of being known or apprehended; as, cognizable causes.

The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth.

Capable of being known. "Matters intelligible and cognoscible." Sir M. Hale.

The state of being a coheir.

The state of being cohesible. Good.

es by their adjacent surfaces. Solids and fluids differ in the degree of cohesion, which, being increased, turns a fluid into a solid. Arbuthnot.

The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3 : 6 and 6 : 12 are relations of cointension. Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer.

The state or quality of being cold.

The chemical basis of ordinary connective tissue, as of tendons or sinews and of bone. On being boiled in water it becomes gelatin or glue.

Capable of being collated. Coleridge.

Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure. "Collateral light." Shak.

The state of being collateral.

Capable of being collected.

Quality or state of being collective.

The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

The state or quality of being colloidal.