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† vertiˈbility Obs.
Also 5 vertybylyte, 6 vertibilite.
[ad. med.L. vertibilitāt-, vertibilitās: see next and -ity. Cf. Sp. vertibilidad.]
Capacity for turning or changing; changeableness, inconstancy, mutability.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 255 Whom fro servyl condycyoun fortune up hente Of hyr whele by vertybylyte And put hym in the state of hy degre. a1529Skelton Agst. Venemous Tongues Wks. I. 134 Ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite. a1617P. Bayne On Eph. i. 11 (1618) 268 God may..will that his creature shall sinne, being suffered to it selfe, by accident of it own liberty and vertibilitie. 1675H. More in R. Ward Life (1710) 296 In this capacity of being United with the Matter, consists the Liberty and Vertibility of the Soul. |