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a. [ F. amener to lead; &unr_; (L. ad) = mener to lead, fr. L. minare to drive animals (properly by threatening cries), in LL. to lead; L. minari, to threaten, minae threats. See Menace. ] 1. (Old Law) Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [ Obs. ] Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Liable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Liable to punishment, a charge, a claim, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being convened or assembled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. convenable, fr. convenir. See Convene. ] Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With his wod his work is convenable. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. covenable, F. convenable. See Covenant. ] Fit; proper; suitable. [ Obs. ] “A covenable day.” Wyclif (Mark vi. 21). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + enable. ] To disable; to disqualify. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enabled p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling ] 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [ Obs. ] “Who hath enabled me.” 1 Tim. i. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. [ 1913 Webster ]

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impregnable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + alienable: cf. F. inaliénable. ] Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + tenable: cf. F. intenable. ] Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [ Obs. ] Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. resnable. ] Reasonable; also, loquacious. [ Obs. ] “Most renable of tongue.” Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

a. [ F. tenable, fr. tenir to hold, L. tenere. See Thin, and cf. Continue, Continent, Entertain, Maintain, Tenant, Tent. ] Capable of being held, maintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or against attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you have hitherto concealed his sight,
Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Tenability. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. Not covenable; inconvenient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7). [ 1913 Webster ]

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