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he quality of being capable; capacity; capableness; esp. intellectual power or ability. A capability to take a thousand views of a subject. H. Taylor.

Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.

The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Capability of appeal.

Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.

holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of undestanding or feeling. Capacity is now properly limited to these [the mere passive operations of the mind]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favars this; although i…

Capability of being cheated.

The quality of being communicable; capability of being imparted.

The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood.

Capability of being condensed.

Capability of being conducted; as, the conductibility of heat or electricity.

Capability of being confused.

Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.

Capability of being controlled; controllableness.

Capability of being controlled.

The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.

Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness.

To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.…