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Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.

lowed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome.

Compatibility; consistency; fitness; agreement.

Not capable of being borne; impassible. A spirit, and so impatible of material fire. Fuller.

Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition. A strength and obduracy of character incompatible with his meek and innocent nature. Southe…

The quality or state of being incompatible; incompatibility.

The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

In a compatible manner.

Compatible; suitable; consistent. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing.

se; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous; compatible; uniform; not contradictory. Show me one that has it in his power To act consistent with himself an hour. Pope. With reference to such a lord, to serve and to be free are terms not consistent only, but equivalent. South.…

the opposite; a proposition, fact, or condition incompatible with another; as, slender proofs which rather show the contrary. See Converse, n., 1. Locke.

In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses. Wharton.

maneuver. Those evolutions are best which can be executed with the greatest celerity, compatible with regularity. Campbell.

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

In an incompatible manner; inconsistently; incongruously.

See Incompatible.

Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent. [Obs.] Ambition and faith . . . are . . . incompossible. Jer. Taylor. -- In`com*pos`si*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]

oncilable; discordant; at variance, esp. as regards character, sentiment, or action; incompatible; incongruous; contradictory.

Opposed in tendency, influence, or effects; antagonistic; inconsistent; incompatible; adverse; repugnant. We are at war with a system, which, by its essence, is inimical to all other governments. Burke.