a. [ L. accessibilis, fr. accedere: cf. F. accessible. See Accede. ]
The best information . . . at present accessible. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. admissible, LL. admissibilis. See Admit. ] Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable;
a. [ L. amissibilis: cf. F. amissible. ] Liable to be lost. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. apprehensibilis. See Apprehend. ] Capable of being apprehended or conceived. “Apprehensible by faith.” Bp. Hall. --
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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;
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. Diffusibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. subject to dismissal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. Capable of being distended or dilated. [ 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 ]
a. That may be evaded. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Capable of being exercised, employed, or enforced;
a. [ Cf. F. expansible. ] Capable of being expanded or spread out widely. [ 1913 Webster ]
Bodies are not expansible in proportion to their weight. Grew.
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a. Capable of being expressed, squeezed out, shown, represented, or uttered. --
a. [ Cf. F. extensible. See Extend. ] Capable of being extended, whether in length or breadth; susceptible of enlargement; extensible; extendible; -- the opposite of
n. Extensibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
pos>a. [ F. faisable, fr. faire to make or do, fr. L. facere. See Fact, Feat. ]
Always existing before their eyes as a thing feasible in practice. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was not feasible to gratify so many ambitions. Beaconsfield. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ F. fusible. See Fuse, v. t. ] CapabIe of being melted or liquefied. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fusible metal,
Fusible plug (Steam Boiler),
a. [ Immense + -ible. ] Immeasurable. [ Obs. ] Davies. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Immerse. ] Capable of being immersed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. im- not + L. mersus, p. p. of mergere to plunge. ] Not capable of being immersed. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. impassibilis; pref. im- not + passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See Passible. ] Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. “Impassible to the critic.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart
Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Impassibility. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Not permissible. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. im- not + persuasible: cf. OF. impersuasible. ] Not persuasible; not to be moved by persuasion; inflexible; impersuadable. Dr. H. More. --
a. [ L. pref. im- not + pertransire to go through. See Per- and Transient. ] Incapable of being passed through. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. im- not + plausible: cf. F. implausible. ] Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth or credibility, and not likely to be believed. “Implausible harangues.” Swift.
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a. [ F., fr. L. impossibilis; pref. im- not + possibilis possible. See Possible. ] Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. [ 1913 Webster ]
With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]
Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
Impossible quantity (Math.),
n. An impossibility;
“Madam, ” quoth he, “this were an impossible!” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. incapability of existing or occurring; impossibility.