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Capable of being defended; as, a defensible city, or a defensible cause.

Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.

Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained, vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, an indefensible fortress, position, cause, etc. Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.

Capable of being defended; defensible. [R.]

s or batteries, or by surrounding with a wall or ditch or other military works; to render defensible against an attack by hostile forces.

The quality or state of not being defensible. Walsh.

In an indefensible manner.

a marble slab, etc. The country is cut into so many hills and inequalities as renders it defensible. Addison.

Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.

Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable. His meals are coarse and short, his employment warrantable, his sleep certain and refreshing. South. -- War"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- War"rant*bly, adv…