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单词 deceivable
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deceivableadj.

/dɪˈsiːvəb(ə)l/
Forms: Forms (about 40 variants): α. with de-Middle English–, β. with des-Middle English, γ. with dis-Middle English–1500s; variations of the stem as in deceive v.
Etymology: < Old French decevable, < stem of décevoir to deceive v. + -able suffix.
1. actively. Having the quality or habit of deceiving; deceitful, deceptive. Obsolete (or archaic).Obsolete since c1688; except as used after the biblical deceivableness.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceptive, misleading
swikelc1000
fellc1300
deceivable1303
falselya1350
blind1393
deceivant1393
fallacec1400
sinister1411
deceivousa1425
deceitful1483
fallacious1509
deceiving?a1513
falsesome1533
sophistical1558
misconceited1595
deceptive1611
abusable1660
self-deceptive1810
flambuginous1813
false1842
funny1903
mamaguy1973
braidie-
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 471 So ben dremys deseyuable.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Prov. xiv. 17 The desseyuable man is hateful.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxx. 135 A fantom and a dessayuable thing to þe sight.
1428 Surtees Misc. (1890) 4 John Lyllyng had salde mykell swylk deceyvable tyn to bellemakers.
1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 6 Deceivable and untrewe Beames and scales.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 93 I seik aboute this warld onstable To find..it is dissavable.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Pet. i. 16 We folowed not deceaueable fables.
1559 J. Knox Declar. to Queen Elizabeth 20 July in E. Arber First Blast (1880) App. 59 Yf I should flatter your grace I were no freind [sic], but a deceavabill trater.
1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 55 Deceivable speech. View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 305 A wicked deceivable person, who indeavouring to chate others, chats himself.
1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > liable to be deceived
falliblec1425
deceivable1646
deceptible1646
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. i Man was not only deceiveable in his integrity, but the Angels of light in all their clarity. View more context for this quotation
1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man iv. §4. 101 As deceivable, and easie to be deluded.
1705 G. Stanhope Paraphr. III. 559 To deal with him, as if he were such a deceivable Creature as our selves.
1841–4 R. W. Emerson Polit. in Wks. (1906) I. 239 With such an ignorant and deceivable majority.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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