labileadj.

Brit.

/ˈleɪbʌɪl/,

/ˈleɪb(ᵻ)l/, U.S.

/ˈleɪˌbaɪl/,

/ˈleɪb(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English labyl, 1600s labil, 1600s– labile.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French labile; Latin lābilis.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French labile (of a person's mind or memory) prone to error (beginning of the 15th cent.), (of a person) liable to fall into error or sin (early 15th cent.), (of a thing) fragile, unstable (first half of the 15th cent.; compare Anglo-Norman lable (early 13th cent. in both the general and the specific theological use)), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lābilis (of poetic metre) smooth-flowing (2nd cent. a.d. in a grammarian), in post-classical Latin also (of liquid) that flows, sliding, slipping easily, fleeting (4th cent.), unstable, insecure, uncertain (6th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), perishable, transient (frequently from 10th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), (in theology) liable to fall into error (from 11th cent. in British sources), (of mind or memory) unreliable (from 12th cent. in British sources) < lābī to slip, fall (see labent adj.) + -ilis -il suffix.Compare Spanish lábil (end of the 15th cent.), Italian labile (14th cent.). In sense 4 after German labil (1858 in this sense: R. Remak Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten 89).

†1.

a. Prone to lapse into sin or folly, spec. (in Christian contexts) liable to fall from a state of innocence. Also (of a person's mind or memory): prone to error; fallible, unreliable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective] > inclined to be

sprethc1315

fraila1340

labile1447

fragilea1513

lapsing1667

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > morally weak > liable to sin or err

sprethc1315

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fallablec1443

labile1447

peccable1604

lapsable1678

1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 5079 My labyl mynde, & þe dulnesse Of my wyt.

1637 T. Swadlin Our Thankfulnesse for Gods Mercy 20 in Serm. Medit. & Prayers Memories so labile, and so fragile, so brittle, and so short.

1661 T. Swadlin King Charles his Funeral 165 This Psalm was penned, partly to tell Gods people of their labile condition, that they may provoke God.

1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 199 The supralapsarian Divines, who make man as labile the object of reprobation.

1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy II. v. 46 For if God did know that Man was naturally Labile before he sinned, he had the Idea of Sin, before its actual Commission.

1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen iv. 140 All Creatures being finite and free, must necessarily, by their Nature, be labile, fallible and peccable.

b. Of a fund or other scheme: liable to be mismanaged or improperly administrated. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital

sound1601

unexchanged1618

discountable1771

defensive1857

uncalled1869

callable1874

pooled1888

unwatered1893

labile1894

aggressive1899

non-callable1902

geared1930

escrowed1946

undynamized1969

banded1987

1894 Forum June 449 I do not underestimate the evils which history shows to be so liable here, but these funds are no more labile than any other form of trust or mortmain.

a. Prone to undergo change in position, nature, form, etc.; unstable; variable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]

slidinga900

wankleeOE

windyc1000

unsteadfastc1200

fleeting?c1225

loose?c1225

brotelc1315

unstablec1340

varyingc1340

variantc1374

motleyc1380

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mutable?a1425

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transmutablec1430

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turnable1483

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alterable?1531

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slid?1553

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voluble1575

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Protean1594

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mobilec1600

ticklish1601

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quicksilvered1605

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uncertain1609

brandling1611

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squeasy1611

wind-changinga1616

insolid1618

ambulatory1625

versatilous1629

plastic1633

desultorious1637

unbottomed1641

fluid1642

fluent1648

yea-and-nay1648

versipellous1650

flexile1651

uncentred1652

variating1653

chequered1656

slideable1662

transchangeative1662

weathercock-like1663

flicketing1674

fluxa1677

lapsable1678

wanton1681

veering1684

upon the weathercock1702

contingent1703

unsettled?1726

fermentable1731

afloat1757

brickle1768

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vagarious1798

unsettled1803

fitful1810

metamorphosical1811

undulating1815

tittupya1817

titubant1817

mutative1818

papier mâché1818

teetotum1819

vacillating1822

capricious1823

sensitive1828

quicksilvery1829

unengrafted1829

fluxionala1834

proteiform1833

liquid1835

tottlish1835

kaleidoscopic1846

versative1846

kaleidoscopical1858

tottery1861

choppy1865

variative1874

variational1879

wimbly-wambly1881

fluctuable1882

shifty1882

giveable1884

shifty1884

tippy1886

mutatory1890

upsettable1890

rocky1897

undulatory1897

streaky1898

tottly1905

tipply1906

up and down1907

inertialess1927

sometimey1946

rise-and-fall1950

switchable1961

1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 350 Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding, and labile [Fr. labile].

1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence xi. 248 Wood..can..be made thin or labile or inconsistent.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 279 Our Ferments and Vital Powers (when once mounted to their ἀκμή) are labil and in continual Flux.

1871 J. B. Sanderson in T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) V. 744 The finely granular fluid or rather labile matter, which occupies the more central parts of the corpuscle, streams into the offshoot, gradually widening it out.

1894 Ld. Salisbury in Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 40 The genius of Lord Kelvin has recently discovered what he terms a labile state of equilibrium.

1947 New Biol. 7 66 In both spring and winter rye the first seven initials to be developed at the growing point give rise to leaves under any combination of environmental factors so far tried. These are followed by about 18 ‘labile’ initials which may give rise either to leaves or flowers according to treatment.

2008 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Aug. 515/2 It was thought her blood pressure was exceptionally labile.

b. Chemistry. Readily undergoing chemical change; esp. (of a bond) easily broken, (of an atom or group) easily detached.Also with prefixed word denoting the agent of change, as acid-labile, oxygen-labile, etc. Cf. heat-labile adj. at heat n. Compounds 1a(d), photolabile adj., thermolabile adj.Contrasted with stable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to reactivity > mutable

labile1878

1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) ii. v. 362 A third, or intermediate proteid..more labile than tissue proteid and yet more stable than the circulating proteid.

1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xxii. 416 Diazonium salts, n-diazotates and the labile diazo-sulphonates react with sodium arsenite or a mixture of KCN and NaHS in such a manner that the N₂X group is replaced by hydrogen.

1951 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. I. x. 170 When one tautomer is more stable than the other under ordinary conditions, the former is known as the stable form, and the latter as the labile form.

1954 W. E. van Heyningen in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxii. 400 Streptococci produce an oxygen-stable hæmolysin, streptolysin S, in addition to an oxygen-labile hæmolysin, streptolysin O.

1970 Nature 4 Apr. 25/2 The other component of nitrogenase from the two bacteria has a molecular weight of about 40,000, two iron and two labile sulphide groups.

1992 C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis v. 98 (caption) Acid-labile sulphur is sulphur that is released as hydrogen sulphide upon treatment with HCl.

2001 F. Shahidi & S.-K. Kim in C.-T. Ho & Q. Y. Zheng Quality Managem. Nutraceuticals vi. 81 The primary products of lipid oxidation, namely hydroperoxides, are labile, due to the low energy of their oxygen-oxygen bond.

a. gen. Of an abstract concept or thing: changeable, mutable; slippery, unstable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective]

unfastc888

unstathelfasteOE

unsteadfasta1200

fleeting?c1225

changeablea1275

ficklea1275

unstablec1290

waveringc1315

flickerc1325

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insteadfast1728

unfixing1810

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chameleonic1821

labefact1874

ballastless1884

weathercocky1886

whiffle-minded1902

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Labile, slipperie, unstable.

1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 14 Now a man would think we had him sure; but his nature is labile and slippery.

1896 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 38 162 For what do we mean by evolution if not that life is labile, never resting, protean in its variety?

1907 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 540 Language is essentially labile.

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 12 37 The Comanche achieve a strong personality in an economically labile society.

2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 4/1 He also chooses to ignore the inherently labile nature of Italian word-order.

b. Psychology. Of a person, his or her disposition, etc.: characterized by emotions which are easily aroused, freely expressed, and tend to alter quickly and spontaneously.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > mentally prostrated or paralysed

witlessc1000

amazedOE

mazeda1325

tottyc1405

tavert1535

moped1606

amazeful1608

bewhatleda1643

anergic1874

labile1883

punchy1932

slug-nutty1933

slap-happy1936

slappy1937

1883 Mind 8 180 Anxiety in ‘labile’ dispositions is apt to sharpen into localised pain.

1884 W. James in Mind 9 199 We must suppose the nervous machinery to be so ‘labile’ in some one emotional direction, that almost every stimulus, however inappropriate, will cause it to upset in that way.

1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. ix. 188 His moods were certainly labile and when things were going well they could be markedly euphoric.

1984 S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 127 He seemed to her unstable, off center. The term often used in Psychology Today was ‘labile’.

2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man xxvi. 209 I am too labile for your taste. Too much at the mercy of the feelings you refer to. I speak my heart too openly. I say too much.

†4. Medicine. In electrotherapy: designating an electrode or electrical current that is moved over parts of the body (rather than being applied to one place); utilizing such an electrode or current. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1860 A. C. Garratt Electro-physiol. & Electro-therapeutics vii. 541 Not only the labile method, but also metallic reversings and polar alternations were employed, so as to produce muscular contractions.

1879 J. Ives Electr. as Med. xii. 116 I use both poles labile over the precordial region, until the heart's action has become strong and rhythmical.

1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica vi. 65 With the anode labile over the foot, leg, and thigh.

1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 369 The battery current labile over the affected muscles.

1916 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Oct. 586/1 Some voluntary movement returned to the extensors of the hand and wrist after treatment of the spine by labile galvanism.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	labile
释义	labileadj. Brit. /ˈleɪbʌɪl/, /ˈleɪb(ᵻ)l/, U.S. /ˈleɪˌbaɪl/, /ˈleɪb(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English labyl, 1600s labil, 1600s– labile. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French labile; Latin lābilis. Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French labile (of a person's mind or memory) prone to error (beginning of the 15th cent.), (of a person) liable to fall into error or sin (early 15th cent.), (of a thing) fragile, unstable (first half of the 15th cent.; compare Anglo-Norman lable (early 13th cent. in both the general and the specific theological use)), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin lābilis (of poetic metre) smooth-flowing (2nd cent. a.d. in a grammarian), in post-classical Latin also (of liquid) that flows, sliding, slipping easily, fleeting (4th cent.), unstable, insecure, uncertain (6th cent.; frequently from 11th cent. in British sources), perishable, transient (frequently from 10th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), (in theology) liable to fall into error (from 11th cent. in British sources), (of mind or memory) unreliable (from 12th cent. in British sources) < lābī to slip, fall (see labent adj.) + -ilis -il suffix.Compare Spanish lábil (end of the 15th cent.), Italian labile (14th cent.). In sense 4 after German labil (1858 in this sense: R. Remak Galvanotherapie der Nerven- und Muskelkrankheiten 89). †1. a. Prone to lapse into sin or folly, spec. (in Christian contexts) liable to fall from a state of innocence. Also (of a person's mind or memory): prone to error; fallible, unreliable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > erring > [adjective] > inclined to be sprethc1315 fraila1340 labile1447 fragilea1513 lapsing1667 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > morally weak > liable to sin or err sprethc1315 amissa1398 fallablec1443 labile1447 peccable1604 lapsable1678 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 5079 My labyl mynde, & þe dulnesse Of my wyt. 1637 T. Swadlin Our Thankfulnesse for Gods Mercy 20 in Serm. Medit. & Prayers Memories so labile, and so fragile, so brittle, and so short. 1661 T. Swadlin King Charles his Funeral 165 This Psalm was penned, partly to tell Gods people of their labile condition, that they may provoke God. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 199 The supralapsarian Divines, who make man as labile the object of reprobation. 1713 tr. P. Poiret Divine Œconomy II. v. 46 For if God did know that Man was naturally Labile before he sinned, he had the Idea of Sin, before its actual Commission. 1740 G. Cheyne Ess. Regimen iv. 140 All Creatures being finite and free, must necessarily, by their Nature, be labile, fallible and peccable. b. Of a fund or other scheme: liable to be mismanaged or improperly administrated. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [adjective] > other attributes of investments or capital sound1601 unexchanged1618 discountable1771 defensive1857 uncalled1869 callable1874 pooled1888 unwatered1893 labile1894 aggressive1899 non-callable1902 geared1930 escrowed1946 undynamized1969 banded1987 1894 Forum June 449 I do not underestimate the evils which history shows to be so liable here, but these funds are no more labile than any other form of trust or mortmain. 2. a. Prone to undergo change in position, nature, form, etc.; unstable; variable. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] slidinga900 wankleeOE windyc1000 unsteadfastc1200 fleeting?c1225 loose?c1225 brotelc1315 unstablec1340 varyingc1340 variantc1374 motleyc1380 ungroundedc1380 muablea1393 passiblea1393 remuablea1393 changeablea1398 movablea1398 variablec1397 slidderya1400 ticklec1400 variantc1412 flitting1413 mutable?a1425 movingc1425 flaskisable1430 flickering1430 transmutablec1430 vertible1447 brittlea1450 ficklea1450 permutablec1450 unfirmc1450 uncertain1477 turnable1483 unsteadfast1483 vagrantc1522 inconstant1526 alterable?1531 stirringc1540 slippery1548 various1552 slid?1553 mutala1561 rolling1561 weathery1563 unconstant1568 interchangeable1574 fluctuant1575 stayless1575 transitive1575 voluble1575 changeling1577 queasy1579 desultory1581 huff-puff1582 unstaid1586 vagrant1586 changeful1590 floating1594 Protean1594 unstayed1594 swimming1596 anchorless1597 mobilec1600 ticklish1601 catching1603 labile1603 unrooted1604 quicksilvered1605 versatile1605 insubstantial1607 uncertain1609 brandling1611 rootless1611 squeasy1611 wind-changinga1616 insolid1618 ambulatory1625 versatilous1629 plastic1633 desultorious1637 unbottomed1641 fluid1642 fluent1648 yea-and-nay1648 versipellous1650 flexile1651 uncentred1652 variating1653 chequered1656 slideable1662 transchangeative1662 weathercock-like1663 flicketing1674 fluxa1677 lapsable1678 wanton1681 veering1684 upon the weathercock1702 contingent1703 unsettled?1726 fermentable1731 afloat1757 brickle1768 wavy1795 vagarious1798 unsettled1803 fitful1810 metamorphosical1811 undulating1815 tittupya1817 titubant1817 mutative1818 papier mâché1818 teetotum1819 vacillating1822 capricious1823 sensitive1828 quicksilvery1829 unengrafted1829 fluxionala1834 proteiform1833 liquid1835 tottlish1835 kaleidoscopic1846 versative1846 kaleidoscopical1858 tottery1861 choppy1865 variative1874 variational1879 wimbly-wambly1881 fluctuable1882 shifty1882 giveable1884 shifty1884 tippy1886 mutatory1890 upsettable1890 rocky1897 undulatory1897 streaky1898 tottly1905 tipply1906 up and down1907 inertialess1927 sometimey1946 rise-and-fall1950 switchable1961 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 350 Pythagoras [said] that each thing or matter was ever gliding, and labile [Fr. labile]. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence xi. 248 Wood..can..be made thin or labile or inconsistent. 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 279 Our Ferments and Vital Powers (when once mounted to their ἀκμή) are labil and in continual Flux. 1871 J. B. Sanderson in T. Holmes Syst. Surg. (ed. 2) V. 744 The finely granular fluid or rather labile matter, which occupies the more central parts of the corpuscle, streams into the offshoot, gradually widening it out. 1894 Ld. Salisbury in Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 40 The genius of Lord Kelvin has recently discovered what he terms a labile state of equilibrium. 1947 New Biol. 7 66 In both spring and winter rye the first seven initials to be developed at the growing point give rise to leaves under any combination of environmental factors so far tried. These are followed by about 18 ‘labile’ initials which may give rise either to leaves or flowers according to treatment. 2008 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 Aug. 515/2 It was thought her blood pressure was exceptionally labile. b. Chemistry. Readily undergoing chemical change; esp. (of a bond) easily broken, (of an atom or group) easily detached.Also with prefixed word denoting the agent of change, as acid-labile, oxygen-labile, etc. Cf. heat-labile adj. at heat n. Compounds 1a(d), photolabile adj., thermolabile adj.Contrasted with stable. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [adjective] > of or relating to reactivity > mutable labile1878 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) ii. v. 362 A third, or intermediate proteid..more labile than tissue proteid and yet more stable than the circulating proteid. 1922 J. J. Sudborough Bernthsen's Text-bk. Org. Chem. (new ed.) xxii. 416 Diazonium salts, n-diazotates and the labile diazo-sulphonates react with sodium arsenite or a mixture of KCN and NaHS in such a manner that the N₂X group is replaced by hydrogen. 1951 I. L. Finar Org. Chem. I. x. 170 When one tautomer is more stable than the other under ordinary conditions, the former is known as the stable form, and the latter as the labile form. 1954 W. E. van Heyningen in H. W. Florey Lect. Gen. Pathol. xxii. 400 Streptococci produce an oxygen-stable hæmolysin, streptolysin S, in addition to an oxygen-labile hæmolysin, streptolysin O. 1970 Nature 4 Apr. 25/2 The other component of nitrogenase from the two bacteria has a molecular weight of about 40,000, two iron and two labile sulphide groups. 1992 C. A. Smith & E. J. Wood Biosynthesis v. 98 (caption) Acid-labile sulphur is sulphur that is released as hydrogen sulphide upon treatment with HCl. 2001 F. Shahidi & S.-K. Kim in C.-T. Ho & Q. Y. Zheng Quality Managem. Nutraceuticals vi. 81 The primary products of lipid oxidation, namely hydroperoxides, are labile, due to the low energy of their oxygen-oxygen bond. 3. a. gen. Of an abstract concept or thing: changeable, mutable; slippery, unstable. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] unfastc888 unstathelfasteOE unsteadfasta1200 fleeting?c1225 changeablea1275 ficklea1275 unstablec1290 waveringc1315 flickerc1325 loose in the haftc1325 motleyc1380 unsadc1384 variablea1387 variantc1386 ticklec1400 inconstant1402 flitting1413 brittle1420 plianta1425 mutablec1425 shittle1440 shittle-witted1448 moonishc1450 unconstant1483 unfirm1483 varying?a1500 pliablea1513 fluctuant1575 changeling1577 shittle-headed1580 cheverel1583 off and on1583 chameleon-like1589 changeful1590 limber1602 unsteady1604 ticklish1606 skittish1609 startling1619 labile1623 uncertaina1625 cheverelized1625 remuant1625 fluctuate1631 fluctuary1632 various1636 contrarious1643 epileptical1646 fluxilea1654 shittle-braineda1655 multivolent1656 totter-headed1662 on and off1668 self-inconsistent1678 weathercocka1680 whifflinga1680 versatile1682 veering1684 fast and loose1697 inconsistent1709 insteadfast1728 unfixing1810 unsteadied1814 chameleonic1821 labefact1874 ballastless1884 weathercocky1886 whiffle-minded1902 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Labile, slipperie, unstable. 1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 14 Now a man would think we had him sure; but his nature is labile and slippery. 1896 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 38 162 For what do we mean by evolution if not that life is labile, never resting, protean in its variety? 1907 Pop. Sci. Monthly June 540 Language is essentially labile. 1952 Amer. Jrnl. Econ. & Sociol. 12 37 The Comanche achieve a strong personality in an economically labile society. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Sept. 4/1 He also chooses to ignore the inherently labile nature of Italian word-order. b. Psychology. Of a person, his or her disposition, etc.: characterized by emotions which are easily aroused, freely expressed, and tend to alter quickly and spontaneously. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > mentally prostrated or paralysed witlessc1000 amazedOE mazeda1325 tottyc1405 tavert1535 moped1606 amazeful1608 bewhatleda1643 anergic1874 labile1883 punchy1932 slug-nutty1933 slap-happy1936 slappy1937 1883 Mind 8 180 Anxiety in ‘labile’ dispositions is apt to sharpen into localised pain. 1884 W. James in Mind 9 199 We must suppose the nervous machinery to be so ‘labile’ in some one emotional direction, that almost every stimulus, however inappropriate, will cause it to upset in that way. 1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. ix. 188 His moods were certainly labile and when things were going well they could be markedly euphoric. 1984 S. Bellow Him with his Foot in his Mouth 127 He seemed to her unstable, off center. The term often used in Psychology Today was ‘labile’. 2005 J. M. Coetzee Slow Man xxvi. 209 I am too labile for your taste. Too much at the mercy of the feelings you refer to. I speak my heart too openly. I say too much. †4. Medicine. In electrotherapy: designating an electrode or electrical current that is moved over parts of the body (rather than being applied to one place); utilizing such an electrode or current. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1860 A. C. Garratt Electro-physiol. & Electro-therapeutics vii. 541 Not only the labile method, but also metallic reversings and polar alternations were employed, so as to produce muscular contractions. 1879 J. Ives Electr. as Med. xii. 116 I use both poles labile over the precordial region, until the heart's action has become strong and rhythmical. 1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica vi. 65 With the anode labile over the foot, leg, and thigh. 1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 369 The battery current labile over the affected muscles. 1916 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 28 Oct. 586/1 Some voluntary movement returned to the extensors of the hand and wrist after treatment of the spine by labile galvanism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1447
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