n. [ L. accessibilitas: cf. F. accessibilité. ] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede. ]
The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In an accessible manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. admissibilité. ] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness;
a. [ F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit. ] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable;
[ Cf. F. amissibilité. See Amit. ] The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. amissibilis: cf. F. amissible. ] Liable to be lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being apprehensible. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. apprehensibilis. See Apprehend. ] Capable of being apprehended or conceived. “Apprehensible by faith.” Bp. Hall. --
v. t. [ L. assibilatus, p. p. of assibilare to hiss out; ad + sibilare to hiss. ] To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. cessible. See Cession. ] Giving way; yielding. [ Obs. ] --
n. See Chasuble. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. See Chasuble. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being classed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being cohesible. Good. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of cohesion. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Capable of collapsing or being collapsed;
a. [ Pref. com- + possible. ] Able to exist with another thing; consistent. [ R. ] Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. comprehensibilis: cf. F. compreéhensible. ]
Lest this part of knowledge should seem to any not comprehensible by axiom, we will set down some heads of it. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]
The horizon sets the bounds . . . between what is and what is not comprehensible by us. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being comprehensible; comprehensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv.
n. [ Cf. F. compressibilité. ] The quality of being compressible of being compressible;
a. [ Cf. F. compressible. ] Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being compressible; compressibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Demonstrable; determinable. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being condensed;
a. Capable of being converted or reversed. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Corrodibility. “Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Corrodible. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being corrosible. Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ See Defeasance. ] Capable of being annulled or made void;
n. Capability of being defended. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. F. défensable, LL. defensabilis, defensibilis. See Defense, and cf. Defendable. ]
n. Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. That may be caught or discovered; apprehensible. [ Obs. ] Petty.
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n. The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured or spread out. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.
n. Diffusibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. subject to dismissal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
n. The quality or capacity of being distensible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being distended or dilated. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. divisibilité. ] The quality of being divisible; the property of bodies by which their parts are capable of separation. [ 1913 Webster ]
Divisibility . . . is a primary attribute of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. divisibilis, fr. dividere: cf. F. divisible. See Divide. ] Capable of being divided or separated. [ 1913 Webster ]
Extended substance . . . is divisible into parts. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Divisible contract (Law),
Divisible offense (Law),
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n. A divisible substance. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. pl. [ NL., from L. dorsum back + branchiae gills. ] (Zool.) A division of chætopod annelids in which the branchiæ are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [ See Illusts. under Annelida and Chætopoda. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Having branchiæ along the back; belonging to the Dorsibranchiata. --
a. That may be evaded. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced;