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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 ]

adj. causing one to believe the truth of something; having the power to influence or convince; cogent; -- of evidence or testimony; as, a convincing manner. Opposite of unconvincing. [ Narrower terms: disenchanting, disillusioning ] [ Also See: persuasive. ]
Syn. -- cogent, potent. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a successful persuasion. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The power of convincing, or the quality of being convincing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To divest of provincial quality or characteristics. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

a. Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not within of pertaining to the same province or jurisdiction. Ayliffe. [ 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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. invincibilité. ] The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. invincibilis: cf. F. invincible. See In- not, and Vincible. ] Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lead forth to battle these my sons
Invincible. Milton.

-- In*vin"ci*ble*ness, n. -- In*vin"ci*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. provincialis: cf. F. provincial. See Province, and cf. Provencal. ] 1. Of or pertaining to province; constituting a province; as, a provincial government; a provincial dialect. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province; not cosmopolitan; countrified; not polished; rude; hence, narrow; illiberal. “Provincial airs and graces.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical; as, a provincial synod. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Of or pertaining to Provence; Provencal. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With two Provincial roses on my razed shoes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (R. C. Ch.) A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. provincialisme. ] A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who lives in a province; a provincial. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being provincial; peculiarity of language characteristic of a province. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Provincialized p. pr. & vb. n. Provincializing ] To render provincial. M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a provincial manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To convert into a province or provinces. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being vincible, vincibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vincibilis, fr. vincere to vanquish, conquer: cf. F. vincible. See Victor. ] Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable. “He, not vincible in spirit . . . drew his sword.” Hayward. “Vincible by human aid.” Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vincible ignorance (Theol.), ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God. [ 1913 Webster ]