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Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.

Capable of being given off as an effluvium. "Effluviable matter." Boyle.

xcite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble. One of most enviable of human beings. Macaulay. -- En"vi*a*ble*ness, n. -- En"vi*a*bly, adv.

Capable of being cast off in the form of exuviæ.

Not leviable; incapable of being imposed, or collected. [R.] Sir M. Hale.

Not pervious; impervious. [R.] -- Im*per"vi*a*ble*ness, n. [R.]

Not capable of being replevied.

Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law. Bacon.

Capable of being replevied.

The quality of being imperviable.

Worthy of envy; desirable; enviable. [Obs.] Such a person appeareth in a far more honorable and invidious state than any prosperous man. Barrow.

Hidden from the eye or the understanding; inviable; secret; concealed; unknown. It is of an occult kind, and is so insensible in its advances as to escape observation. I. Taylor. Occult line (Geom.), a line drawn as a part of the construction of a figure or problem, but not to appear in the finished plan. -- Occult qu…

Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being viable. Specifically: --(a) (Law)

Capable of living; in a state to live; viable. [R.] Pythagoras and Hippocrates . . . affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital. Sir T. Browne. Vital air, oxygen gas; -- so called because essential to animal life. [Obs.] -- Vital capacity (Physiol.), the breathing capacity of the lungs; -- expressed by the numbe…