fathomable

[Eng. fathom: -able.] That may or can be fathomed, or comprehended. făţh-om-er, s. [Eng. fathom: -er.] One who fathoms, penetrates into, or comprehends. făth-om-le , a. [Eng. fathom; -le .] I. Literally : 2. Milit .: The duties of military men distinct from the use of arms; as, men on fatigue . [FATIGUE DUTY.] Crabb thus discriminates between fatigue , wearine , and la itude : " Fatigue is an exhaustion of the animal or mental powers; wearine is a wearing out the strength, or breaking the spirits; la itude is a general relaxation of the animal frame: the laborer experiences fatigue from the toils of the day; the man of busine , who is hara ed by the multiplicity and complexity of his concerns, suffers fatigue ; and the student, who labors to fit himself for a public exhibition of his acquirements, is in like manner exposed to fatigue : wearine attends the traveler who takes a long or pathle journey; wearine is the lot of the petitioner, who attends in the antechamber of a great man; the critic is doomed to suffer wearine , who is obliged to drag through the shallow but voluminous writings of a dull author; and the enlightened hearer will suffer no le wearine in listening to the absurd effusions of an extemporaneous preacher. La itude is the consequence of a distempered system, sometimes brought on by an exce of fatigue , sometimes by sickne , and frequently by the action of the external air." (Crabb: Eng . Synon .) IMG:content-1469.png:[blocks in formation] fa-ti gue, v . t . [Fr. fatiguer , from Lat. fatigo ; Sp. & Port. fatigar ; Ital. fatigare , fat i care .] 1. To tire, to weary; to exhaust or wear out the strength of by bodily labor or mental exertion. IMG:content-1470.png:[blocks in formation] "Ocean exhibits, fathomle and broad, Much of the power and majesty of God." Cowper : Retirement , 525, 526. II. Fig .: That cannot be fathomed, sounded, or comprehended. "Here lies the fathomle absurdity."-Milton: Tetrachord on. *fa-tid-ic, *fa-tid-Ic-al, a. [Lat. fatidic us , from fatum fate, and dico to say, to tell.] De. claring or having the power to foretell future events; prophetic. same thing wearies us; labor fatigues us. I am weary with standing; I am fatigued with walking. A suitor wearies us by his perseverance; fatigues us by his importunity." ( Blair : Rhetoric (1817), i. 229, 230.) *fa-tig ue-some, a . [English fatigue ; -some .] Fatiguing, wearing, exhausting. *fa-til-o-quent, a. [Lat. fatum fate; loquens , pr. par. of loquor =to speak.] Prophesying; pro IMG:content-1471.png:[blocks in formation] Făt-I-mide, Făt-i-mite, a. & s. [Named from Fatima, the daughter of Mohamined and wife of scribed in the definition profe ed to have sprung.] A. As adj .: Sprung from Fatima. [Def.] Fatimide Dynasty. [B.] from whom the founder of the dynasty de B. As substantive (pl.): Hist.: A race of Mohammedan kings, whose founder, Abu Mohammed Obeidallah, was born in A. D. 882, and began to reign in 910, making Mahadi, the ancient Aphrodisium, about 100 miles south of Tunis, his capital. The place was called from the name Mahadi, or Director of the Faithful, which he had a umed. The dynasty there founded continued to reign till A. D. 1171, and produced in all fourteen kings.