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a. [ L. caducus falling (fr. cadere to fall) + E. branchiate. ] (Zool.) With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cibaruus, fr. cibus food. ] Pertaining to food; edible. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. cibatio, fr. cibare to feed. ] 1. The act of taking food. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alchemy) The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucible with fresh material. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ciboule, LL. cepula, cepola, dim. of L. cepa, caepa, caepe, an onion. Cf. Chibbal, Cives. ] A perennial alliaceous plant (Allium fistulosum), sometimes called Welsh onion. Its fistular leaves areused in cookery. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.: pl. Ciboria [ LL., fr. L. ciborium a cup, fr. Gr. &unr_; a seed vessel of the Egyptian bean; also, a cup made from its largeleaves, or resembling its seed vessel in shape. ] 1. (Arch.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being coerced.

-- Co*er"ci*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being known. “Matters intelligible and cognoscible.” Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to judicial investigation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Capable of being changed from a liquid to a solid state. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They formed a . . . fixed concrescible oil. Fourcroy (Trans. ). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. concupiscible. ] 1. Exciting to, or liable to be affected by, concupiscence; provoking lustful desires. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exciting desire, good or evil. [ 1913 Webster ]

The schools reduce all the passions to these two heads, the concupiscible and irascible appetite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being concupiscible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. conducibilis. ] Conducive; tending; contributing. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

All his laws are in themselves conducible to the temporal interest of them that observe them. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being conducible. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to promote. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being convinced or won over. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being confuted and disproved by argument; refutable. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. crucibulum a hanging lamp, an earthen pot for melting metals (cf. OF. croisel, creuseul, sort of lamp, crucible, F. creuset crucible), prob. of German origin; cf. OHG. krūsul, LG. krüsel, hanging lamp, kroos, kruus, mug, jug, jar, D. kroes cup, crucible, Dan. kruus, Sw. krus, E. cruse. It was confused with derivatives of L. crux cross (cf. Crosslet), and crucibles were said to have been marked with a cross, to prevent the devil from marring the chemical operation. See Cruse, and cf. Cresset. ] 1. A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hessian crucible (Chem.), a cheap, brittle, and fragile, but very refractory crucible, composed of the finest fire clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingredients and fluxes. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Deducibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being deduced or inferred; derivable by reasoning, as a result or consequence. [ 1913 Webster ]

All properties of a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being brought down. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As if God [ were ] deducible to human imbecility. State Trials (1649). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being deducible; deducibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By deduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Divorceable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. docibilis, fr. docere to teach. ] Easily taught or managed; teachable. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. docibilitas. ] Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. [ 1913 Webster ]

To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being educed. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of effervescing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be enforced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being proved or clearly brought to light; demonstrable. Sir. M. Hale.

--E*vin"ci*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Capable of being defended, or of making or affording defense. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

No fort so fencible, nor walls so strong. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A soldier enlisted for home service only; -- usually in the pl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. forcible forcible, forceable that may be forced. ] 1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. [ 1913 Webster ]

How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2&unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent; impetuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forcible entry and detainer (Law), the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter.

Syn. -- Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty; impressive; cogent; influential. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV., ” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.” ] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Prof. Ayton ] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being forcible. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a forcible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. fulcire to prop. ] Capable of being propped up. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ignoscibilis, fr. ignoscere to pardon, lit., not to wish to know; pref. in- not + gnoscere, noscere, to learn to know. See In- not, and Know. ] Pardonable. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. immarcescibilis; pref. im- not + marcescere to fade: cf. F. immarcescible. ] Unfading; lasting. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Unfadingly. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. immiscibilité. ] Incapability of being mixed, or mingled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + miscible: cf. F. immiscible. ] 1. Not capable of being mixed or mingled. [ 1913 Webster ]

A chaos of immiscible and conflicting particles. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically: (Chem.) Not miscible; forming two distinct phases when mixed at some concentration; -- of two liquids; as, water and gasoline are immiscible. [ PJC ]

a. [ Pref. im- + putrescible: cf. F. imputrescible. ] Not putrescible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + coercible: cf. F. incoercible. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) Not capable of being reduced to the form of a liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical temperature. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. (Physics) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incognizable. -- In`cog*nos"ci*bil"i*ty n.

a. [ L. incommiscibilis; pref. in- not + commiscibilis that can be mingled. ] Not commiscible; not mixable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconvincibilis. See In- not, and Convince. ] Not convincible; incapable of being convinced. [ 1913 Webster ]

None are so inconvincible as your half-witted people. Gov. of the Tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner not admitting of being convinced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. ] Unspeakable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]