Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TRACT-I-BIL'ITY
CON-TRACT'EDNESSCON-TRACT'I-BLE
CON-TRACT-I-BIL'ITY, n.
Possibility of being contracted; quality of suffering contraction; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air. – Arbuthnot.
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