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Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.

Delightful; delectable. [Obs.]

Capable of being dismounted; -- said of a form of rim, for an automobile wheel, which can be removed with its tire from the wheel.

Capable of being denoted or marked. Sir T. Browne.

Divisible. [Obs.] Bacon.

Fit to be deputed; suitable to act as a deputy. Carlyle.

Capable of being detected or found out; as, parties not detectable. "Errors detectible at a glance." Latham.

Capacity of being odious. [R.] Carlyle.

eing detested; abominable; extremely hateful; very odious; deserving abhorrence; as, detestable vices. Thou hast defiled my sanctuary will all thy detestable things, and with all thine abominations. Ezek. v. 11.

The quality or state of being detestable.

In a detestable manner.

Avoidable. [Obs.]

The quality of being dilatable, or admitting expansion; -- opposed to contractibility. Ray.

able of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat.

Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.] A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.

To unsettle; to break up (anything established); to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.

The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by Act of Parliament.

Unprofitable. [Obs.]