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

References

• “deceptible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• depectible