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1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2 Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon. But I have reasons

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1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2 Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon. But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak. That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth 2. Violent; impetuous. Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. Prior. 3. Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust. Swift. Forcible entry and detainer , the entering upon and taking and withholding of land and tenements by actual force and violence, and with a strong hand, to the hindrance of the person having the right to enter. Syn. -- Violent; powerful; strong; energetic; mighty; potent; weighty; impressive; cogent; influential.

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  • CONSUMMATELY
    In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
  • IMPOSABLE
    Capable of being imposed or laid on. Hammond.
  • SOLEMNIZATION
    The act of solemnizing; celebration; as, the solemnization of a marriage.
  • SOLEMNIZE
    1. To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms. Baptism to be administered in one place, and marriage solemnized in another. Hooker. 2. To dignify or honor by ceremonies; to celebrate. Their choice nobility and flowers
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • GUIDAGE
    1. The reward given to a guide for services. Ainsworth. 2. Guidance; lead; direction. Southey.
  • SOLEMN
    Made in form; ceremonious; as, solemn war; conforming with all legal requirements; as, probate in solemn form. Burrill. Jarman. Greenleaf. Solemn League and Covenant. See Covenant, 2. Syn. -- Grave; formal; ritual; ceremonial; sober; serious;
  • GUIDABLE
    Capable of being guided; willing to be guided or counseled. Sprat.
  • POWERFUL
    Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • SOLEMNIZATE
    To solemnize; as, to solemnizate matrimony. Bp. Burnet.
  • FEELINGLY
    In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
  • FRUSTRATE
    Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
  • IMPOSINGNESS
    The quality of being imposing.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • SOLEMNLY
    In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally. There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden. I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift.
  • STRONGYLOID
    Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasitic nematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some of the species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, and bronchial tubes, are often very injurious. -- n.
  • IMPOSTRESS; IMPOSTRIX
    A woman who imposes upon or deceives others. Fuller.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • PETROGRAPHIC; PETROGRAPHICAL
    Pertaining to petrography.
  • STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
    Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
  • PENTAGRAPHIC; PENTAGRAPHICAL
    Pantographic. See Pantograph.
  • PHOTOGRAPHIC; PHOTOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to photography; obtained by photography; used ib photography; as a photographic picture; a photographic camera. -- Pho`to*graph"ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically
  • PHYTOGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to phytography.
  • EQUIPOTENTIAL
    Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
  • STEREOGRAPHICALLY
    In a stereographical manner; by delineation on a plane.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • PINGUIDINOUS
    Containing fat; fatty.
  • OMNIPOTENT
    1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
  • EPIGRAPHIC; EPIGRAPHICAL
    Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.
  • HETEROGRAPHIC
    Employing the same letters to represent different sounds in different words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, the ordinary English orthography is heterographic.

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