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Capable of being cured; admitting remedy. "Curable diseases." Harvey. -- Cur"a*ble*ness, n. -- Cur`a*bly, adv.

Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.

The state or quality of being deflagrable. The ready deflagrability . . . of saltpeter. Boyle.

Burning with a sudden and sparkling combustion, as niter; hence, slightly explosive; liable to snap and crackle when heated, as salt.

Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrableness.

at can be proved beyond doubt or question. The grand articles of our belief are as demonstrable as geometry. Glanvill.

The quality of being demonstrable; demonstrability.

In a demonstrable manner; incontrovertibly; clearly. Cases that demonstrably concerned the public cause. Clarendon.

That may be demurred to. Stormonth.

Deplorableness. Stormonth.

ble; causing grief; hence, sad; calamitous; grievous; wretched; as, life's evils are deplorable. Individual sufferers are in a much more deplorable conditious than any others. Burke.

State of being deplorable.

In a deplorable manner.

Desirable. [R.] "Good and desiderable things." Holland.

The state or quality of being desirable; desirableness.

nging; fitted to excite desire or a wish to possess; pleasing; agreeable. All of them desirable young men. Ezek. xxiii. 12. As things desirable excite Desire, and objects move the appetite. Blackmore.

The quality of being desirable. The desirableness of the Austrian alliance. Froude.

In a desirable manner.