KJV Dictionary Definition: refusable

refusable

REFU'SABLE, a. s as z. from refuse. That may be refused.

refusal

REFU'SAL, n. s as z.

1. The act of refusing; denial of any thing demanded, solicited or offered for acceptance. The first refusal is not always proof that the request will not be ultimately granted.

2. The right of taking in preference to others; the choice of taking or refusing; option; pre-emption. We say, a man has the refusal of a farm or a horse, or the refusal of an employment.

refuse

REFU'SE, v.t. s as z. L. recuso; re and the root of causor, to accuse; causa, cause. The primary sense of causor is to drive, to throw or thrust at, and recuso is to drive back, to repel or repulse, the sense of refuse.

1. To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded.

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Num. 20.

2. To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer.

If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jer. 25.

3. To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof.

Prov. 10.

The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Ps. 118.

Note - Refuse expenses rejection more strongly than decline.

REFU'SE, v.i. s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply.

Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse.

refused

REFU'SED, pp. Denied; rejected; not accepted.

refuser

REFU'SER, n. One that refuses or rejects.

refusing

REFU'SING, ppr. Denying; declining to accept; rejecting.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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