Word Meanings - COMBATABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments.
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- COMBAT
To struggle or contend, as with an opposing force; to fight. To combat with a blind man I disdain. Milton. After the fall of the republic, the Romans combated only for the choice of masters. Gibbon. - COMBATTANT
In the position of fighting; -- said of two lions set face to face, each rampant. - COMBATABLE
Such as can be, or is liable to be, combated; as, combatable foes, evils, or arguments. - COMBATIVENESS
A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition. (more info) 1. The quality of being combative; propensity to contend or to quarrel. - COMBATANT
Contending; disposed to contend. B. Jonson. - LIABLE
1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; - LIABLENESS
Quality of being liable; liability. - COMBATER
One who combats. Sherwood. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - PLIABLE
1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be - COMPLIABLE
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin. - INTERCOMBAT
Combat. Daniel. - CONCILIABLE
A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon. - RELIABLE
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's - HORS DE COMBAT
Out of the combat; disabled from fighting. - NONCOMBATANT
Any person connected with an army, or within the lines of an army, who does not make it his business to fight, as any one of the medical officers and their assistants, chaplains, and others; also, any of the citizens of a place occupied by an army; - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - MULTIPLIABLE
Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n. - DEVILSHIP
The character or person of a devil or the devil. Cowley. - IMPLIABLE
Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding. - INCOMPLIABLE
Not compliable; not conformable. - ALLIABLE
Able to enter into alliance.