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Passibility. Brerewood.

Held aloft. [Obs.] Bacon.

The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.

That may be permitted; allowable; admissible. -- Per*mis"si*ble*ness, n. -- Per*mis"si*bly, adv.

Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.

Capable of being persuaded; persuadable.

Something worthy of praise. [Obs.] Integrity, fidelity, and other gracious plausibilities. E. Vaughan.

Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion. "Plausible and popular arguments." Clarendon.

To render plausible. [R.]

Quality of being plausible.

In a plausible manner.

The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. "All possibility of error." Hooker. "Latent possibilities of excellence." Johnson.

imes used to express extreme improbability; barely able to be, or to come to pass; as, possibly he is honest, as it is possible that Judas meant no wrong. With God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26.

In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover. Can we . . . possibly his love desert Milton. When possibly I can, I will return. Shak.

Such as may be redressed.

The state or quality of being remissible. Jer. Taylor.

Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.

Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable. -- Rep`re*hen"si*ble*ness, n. -- Rep`re*hen"si*bly, adv.

Capable of being repressed.

The state of being responsible, accountable, or answerable, as for a trust, debt, or obligation.