Viable

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Viable \Vi"a*ble\, a. [F., from vie life, L. vita. See {Vital}.]
     (Law)
     Capable of living; born alive and with such form and
     development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of
     a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           VIABLE, Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said
           of a child who is born alive in such an advanced state
           of formation as to be capable of living. Unless be is
           born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit
           them to his heirs, and is considered as if he had never
           been born.                               --Bouvier (Law
                                                    Dictionary,
                                                    1856).
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  viable
       adj 1: capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances
              as they are [syn: {feasible}, {executable}, {practicable},
               {workable}]
       2: capable of life or normal growth and development; "viable
          seeds"; "a viable fetus"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "viable":
     OK, aboveground, acceptable, achievable, actable, activating,
     admissible, agreeable, alive, alive and kicking, all right,
     alright, among the living, animate, animated, animating, animative,
     applicable, attainable, bracing, breathing, capable of life,
     compassable, conscious, doable, endowed with life, energizing,
     enlivened, enlivening, exhilarating, exhilarative, existent,
     feasible, good enough, in the flesh, inspirited,
     instinct with life, invigorating, invigorative, live, living,
     long-lived, manageable, maneuverable, manipulatable, negotiable,
     of concern, of concernment, of consequence, of interest, of moment,
     of note, of significance, of weight, okay, operable, operatable,
     overcomable, passable, performable, possible, practicable,
     practical, quick, quickening, realizable, reasonable, rousing,
     sensible, stimulating, stimulative, superable, supportable,
     surmountable, sustainable, tenable, tenacious of life, tonic,
     unexceptionable, unobjectionable, very much alive, vital,
     vitalizing, vivified, workable, zoetic
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VIABLE, Vitae habilis, capable of living. This is said of a child who is 
  born alive in such an advanced state of formation as to be capable of 
  living. Unless be is born viable he acquires no rights and cannot transmit 
  them to his heirs, and is considered as if he bad never been born. 
       2. This term is used In the French law, Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. tome 4, p. 
  101 it would be well to engraft it on our own Vide Traill. Med. Jur. 46, and 
  Dead Born.