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113 words match “ARABLE”

ARABLE n. 2 definitions

Arable land; plow land.

Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv.

Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv.

Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.

Arable; tillable. [Archaic]

Comparable. [Obs. or R.]

Not arable. [R.]

INCOMPARABLE a.

Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton for a patron. Bp. Warburton. -- In*com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- In*com"pa…

INSEPARABLE a. 2 definitions

Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. The history of every language is inseparable from that of the people by whom it is spoken. Mure. Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable. D. Webster.

INSEPARABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being inseparable; inseparability. Bp. Burnet.

Not reparable; not capable of being repaired, recovered, regained, or remedied; irretrievable; irremediable; as, an irreparable breach; an irreparable loss. Shak.

IRREPARABLENESS n.

Quality of being irreparable.

PARABLE n. 3 definitions

which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

Capable of being separated, disjoined, disunited, or divided; as, the separable parts of plants; qualities not separable from the substance in which they exist. -- Sep"a*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Sep"a*ra*bly, adv. Trials permit me not to doubt of the separableness of a yellow tincture from gold. Boyle.

A kind of small nail used by shoemakers.

Inseparable. [Obs.] "In love unseparable." Shak.

Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.

on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English y- or i- (corrupted from the AS. inseparable particle ge-, cognate with OHG. ga-, gi-, Goth. ga-), which, as a prefix, made no essential addition to the meaning, as in aware. (5) French à (L. ad to), as in abase, achieve. (6) L. a, ab, abs, from, as in avert. (7) Gree…