What does deceptible mean?
Deceptible means (obsolete) Capable of being deceived..
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/dɪˈsɛptɪbl̩/ · adjective
(obsolete) Capable of being deceived..
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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Deceptible means (obsolete) Capable of being deceived..
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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 […]
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