deceptible

Definitions

Capable of being deceived.

obsolete

Examples

“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 […]”

“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 […]”

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