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Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal.

Quality of being liable; liability.

Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.

Able to enter into alliance.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.

A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. [Obs.] Bacon.

Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.

Not compliable; not conformable.

Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.

d, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant.

Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more re…

Inapplicable. Milton.

Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey.

to abate a nuisance, to abate a writ. (b) (Eng. Law) To diminish; to reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

Liable to be called on to render an account; answerable; as, every man is accountable to God for his conduct.

Liable to be accused or censured; chargeable with a crime or fault; blamable; -- with of.

A substance liable to become sour.

r. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and…

Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.