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perfectible|pəˈfɛktɪb(ə)l, ˈpɜːfɪktɪb(ə)l|
Also 9 -able.
[f. perfect v. or a. + -ible, as if from a L. type *perfectibilis, perhaps used in med. or mod.L.: cf. It. perfettibile ‘that may be perfected’ (Florio 1611), F. perfectible (Diderot 1767, admitted by Acad. 1798).]
Capable of being perfected or brought to perfection.
1635D. Person Varieties ii. 64 Every thing perfectible striveth to attaine to its own perfection. a1839Galt Demon of Destiny vii. (1840) 44 Superior beings shall hereafter rise, Made hence perfectable. 1898L. Stephen Stud. Biographer I. vii. 250 Man, he [Godwin] thought, was perfectible, and a litle calm argument would make him perfect. |