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† ˈvertible, a. Obs.
Also 5 vertybyl.
[a. OF. vertible, or ad. med.L. vertibilis, f. L. vert-, stem of vertĕre to turn: see -ible.]
Capable of turning or being turned; changing, inconstant, mutable.
1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 272 By the vertybyl cours of fatal deth. 1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 134 A parallel of your vertible and Wind-mill uncertainty. 1667H. More Div. Dial. ii. xx. (1713) 151 But were it not better that God Almighty should annihilate the Individuals of this middle vertible Order, as you call it, as soon as they lapse into Sin?
Hence † ˈvertibleness, ‘aptness or easiness to turn’ (Bailey, vol. II. 1727). Obs.—0 |