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deceivable, a.|dɪˈsiːvəb(ə)l|
Forms (about 40 variants): α. with de- 4–, β. with des- 4–5, γ. with dis- 4–6; variations of the stem as in deceive.
[a. OF. decevable, f. stem of décevoir to deceive + -able.]
†1. actively. Having the quality or habit of deceiving; deceitful, deceptive. Obs. (or arch.)
(Obs. since c 1688; exc. as used after the biblical deceivableness.)
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 471 So ben dremys deseyuable. 1382Wyclif Prov. xiv. 17 The desseyuable man is hateful. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xxx. 135 A fantom and a dessayuable thing to þe sight. 1428Surtees Misc. (1890) 4 John Lyllyng had salde mykell swylk deceyvable tyn to bellemakers. 1503–4Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 6 Deceivable and untrewe Beames and scales. c1510Dunbar Poems lxviii, I seik abowte this warld onstable, To find..it is dissavable. 1535Coverdale 2 Pet. i. 16 We folowed not deceaueable fables. 1558Knox First Blast App. (Arb.) 59 Yf I should flatter your grace I were no freind, but a deceavabill trater. 1682Bunyan Holy War 55 Deceivable speech. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 305 A wicked deceivable person, who indeavouring to chate others, chats himself. 1860Trench Serm. Westm. Abb. xxxiii. 376 We may have proved them false and deceivable a thousand times, and yet they are still able to attract and to allure.
2. passively. Capable of being, or liable to be, deceived; fallible. Now rare.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. i, Man was not only deceiveable in his integrity, but the Angels of light in all their clarity. 1658Whole Duty Man iv. §4. 38 As deceivable, and easie to be deluded. 1705Stanhope Paraphr. III. 559 To deal with him, as if he were such a deceivable Creature as our selves. 1841–4Emerson Ess., Politics Wks. (Bohn) I. 239 With such an ignorant and deceivable majority. |