n. Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. accessibilitas: cf. F. accessibilité. ] The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach; receptibility. Langhorne. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quantity of being addible; capability of addition. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. adhibitus, p. p. of adhibere to hold to; ad + habere to have. ]
n. [ L. adhibitio. ] The act of adhibiting; application; use. Whitaker. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖ At one's pleasure; as one wishes. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. admissibilité. ] The quality of being admissible; admissibleness;
n. The quality or state of being affectible. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L., elsewhere, at another place. See Alias. ] (Law) The plea or mode of defense under which a person on trial for a crime proves or attempts to prove that he was in another place when the alleged act was committed;
n. Quality of being alible. [ 1913 Webster ]
[ 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 ]
‖n. pl. [ See Amphibium. ] (Zool.) One of the classes of vertebrates. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ The Amphibia are distinguished by having usually no scales, by having eggs and embryos similar to those of fishes, and by undergoing a complete metamorphosis, the young having gills. There are three living orders: (1) The tailless, as the frogs (
a. & n. Amphibian. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Amphibia;
n. (Zool.) One of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Pertaining to amphibiology. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Gr. &unr_; amphibious + -logy: cf. F. amphibiologie. ] A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ Gr.
The amphibious character of the Greeks was already determined: they were to be lords of land and sea. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]
Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Like an amphibious being. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ Cf. F. appétibilité. ] The quality of being desirable. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being apprehensible. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]
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 ]
n. The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) See Bebeerine. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to drinking or tippling. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Physiol.) Checking or arresting the heart's action. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being cognoscible. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being cohesible. Good. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. [ L. cohibitio. ] Hindrance; restraint. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being combustible. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. compatibilité. ] The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity;
n. The quality or state of being comprehensible; capability of being understood. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. compressibilité. ] The quality of being compressible of being compressible;
n. The quality of being conceivable; conceivableness. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being conducible; conducibleness. Bp. Wilkins. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. F. conductibilité. ]
n. The tendency of fluids to run together. [ R. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being contemptible; contemptibleness. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible;
n. The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]
The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Quality of being corrigible; capability of being corrected; corrigibleness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being corrodible. [ R. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Corrodibility. “Corrosibility . . . answers corrosiveness.” Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]