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▪ I. † imˈperfectible, a.1 Mus. Obs. [f. imperfect v. + -ible.] Capable of being made imperfect (see imperfect a. 7 a).
1609Douland Ornith. Microl. 58 As oft as two alterable Notes are placed between two imperfectible Notes without a Pricke of Division, the Second is always altered. ▪ II. imperfectible, a.2|ɪmpəˈfɛktɪb(ə)l| [f. im-2 + perfectible. Cf. F. imperfectible (Littré).] Incapable of being made perfect.
1869Farrar Fam. Speech iv. (1873) 115 Many of them apparently as imperfectible as the Ainos of Jesso or the Veddahs of Ceylon. Hence imperfectiˈbility, incapability of being made perfect.
1836Westm. Rev. Apr. 241 The ‘imperfectibility’ of men's nature is visible in their lives. 1971Nature 31 Dec. 523/1 The same principle of imperfectibility applies to all sex chromosome mechanisms. |