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12 words match “VOCABLE”

VOCABLE n.
r letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle.
IRREVOCABLE a.
capable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
REVOCABLE a.
Capable of being revoked; as, a revocable edict or grant; a revocable covenant. -- Rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Rev"o*ca*bly, adv.
COUNTERMANDABLE a.
Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.
DECISIVE a.
ontroversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam.
HATTI-SHERIF n.
A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
IRREVOCABILITY n.
The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.
IRREVOKABLE a.
Irrevocable. [R.]
IRREVOLUBLE a.
That has no finite period of revolution; not revolving. [R.] The dateless and irrevocable circle of eternity. Milton.
REVOCABILITY n.
The quality of being revocable; as, the revocability of a law.
VERB n.
A word; a vocable. [Obs.] South.
WORD n.
e component part of human speech or language; a constituent part of a sentence; a term; a vocable. "A glutton of words." Piers Plowman. You cram these words into mine ears, against The stomach of my sense. Shak. Amongst men who confound their ideas with words, there must be endless disputes. Locke.