deceptible

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsɛptɪbl̩/

Adjective

deceptible (comparative more deceptible, superlative most deceptible)

1. (obsolete) Capable of being deceived.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎^[1], London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1:

     The first and father cause of common Error, is the common infirmity of humane nature; of whose deceptible condition, although perhaps there should not need any other eviction, then the frequent errors we shall our selves commit, even in the expresse declarement hereof: Yet shall we illustrate the same from more infallible constitutions […]

   • 1822, George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie‎^[2], London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, page 39:

     Bright Truth! I grew aweary of the dull,
     Undeviating, dusty road of Science,
     Vacant o’ beauty, barren o’ sweetness;
     I thought—deceptible, ah! too deceptible—
     The true Elysium lay within the mind
     Fill’d with amaranthian flow’rs of Fantasie […]

Related terms

• deceptibility
• deception

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “deceptible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• depectible