a. That may be enforced. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OF. forcible forcible, forceable that may be forced. ] 1. Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential. [ 1913 Webster ]

How forcible are right words! Job. vi. 2&unr_;. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sweet smells are most forcible in dry substances, when broken. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

But I have reasons strong and forcible. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

That punishment which hath been sometimes forcible to bridle sin. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. Lowth (Transl. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent; impetuous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like mingled streams, more forcible when joined. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction. [ 1913 Webster ]

In embraces of King James . . . forcible and unjust. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forcible entry and detainer (Law), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Feeble, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare's “King Henry IV., ” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible.” ] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Prof. Ayton ] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being forcible. [ 1913 Webster ]

See drainable.
See dramatic.
See drinkable.
See durable.
See duteous.
See dutiful.
See earnest.
See eatable.
See ecclesiastical.
See edible.
See elaborate.
See elective.
See elusive.
See emotional.
See emphatic. See employable.
See employable.
See endurable.
See -English.
See entire.
See enviable.
See envious.
See episcopal.
See equable.
See errable.
See escapable.
See evangelical.
See eventful.
See evident.
See exact.
See examinable.
See exceptionable.
See exclusive.
See exemplary.
See exempt.
See exhaustible.
See existent.
See expectable.
See expectant.
See explainable.
See express.
See expressible.
See expugnable.
See extinct.
See factious.
See fadable.
See fain.
See familiar.
See famous.
See fashionable.
See fast.
See fatherly.
See fathomable.
See faulty.
See fearful.
See feasible.
See felicitous.
See felt.
See feminine.
See fermentable.
See festival.
See fine.
See fleshy.
See fluent.
See forcible.
See fordable.
See foreknowable.
See foreseeable.
See forgetful.
See forgivable.
See formal.
See framable.
See fraternal.
See friable.
See frightful.
See frustrable.
See full.
See gainable.
See gainful.
See gallant.
See genial.
See genteel.
See gentle.
See gentlemanlike.
See gentlemanly.
See geometrical.
See ghostly.
See glad.
See godlike.
See good.
See goodly.
See gorgeous.
See grammatical.
See grave.
See guidable.
See guilty.
See habile.
See habitable.
See hale.
See handy.
See hardy.
See harmful.
See hasty.
See hazardous.
See healable.
See healthful.
See healthy.
See heavenly.
See heedful.
See helpful.
See heritable.
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[ 1913 Webster ]