mutableadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈmjuːtəbl/, U.S.

/ˈmjudəb(ə)l/

Forms: late Middle English– mutable, 1500s muitable, 1500s mutabell; Scottish pre-1700 mutabil, pre-1700 mutabill, pre-1700 1700s– mutable.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūtābilis.

Etymology: < classical Latin mūtābilis liable to change, changeable, fickle < mūtāre to change (see mutate v.) + -bilis -ble suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin mutabile thing liable to change (early 3rd cent.), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin mūtābilis . Compare Middle French mutable (1576 in an isolated attestation), French mutable (1801). Compare slightly earlier muable adj.

A. adj.

a. Liable or subject to change or alteration.

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

?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. vi. 174 Whiche destynal causes, whan thei passen out fro the bygynnynges of the unmoevable purveaunce, it moot nedes be that thei ne be nat mutable [L. immutabiles].

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 3642 (MED) Of worldly trust, fals & ful mutable, Who cast no pereil til þat it be-falle, In-stede of sugre he tasteth galle.

?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. D Protheus,..Mutable of fygure, oftymes in one hour.

a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 590 With-oute whom [sc. Fortune], sithen non playnly can prosper, That in this muitable lyfe ar nowe procedyng, I am come thurgh love.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xv. 89 Although no lawes but positiue be mutable, yet all are not mutable which be positiue.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 306 There is no East and West in Nature; nor are those absolute and invariable, but respective and mutable points.

1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage Ep. Ded. sig. A5 I shall not undertake to say, but that in the Tables of values, in these mutable times, some variation may happen.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋15 The Use of Clothes continues, though the Fashion of them has been mutable.

1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. i. 347 Mutable Flycatcher. Muscicapa mutata.

1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xc Her mutable countenance had now all the fixedness and paleness of marble.

1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. xvi. 428 Like all other laws those of the Kirk proved to be mutable.

1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xiii. 164 When you committed either fornication or adultery you recognized your own personal fallibility of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line.

1978 C. James Flying Visits (1984) 47 The city is infinitely mutable. Looking back on it from the Staten Island ferry on a rainy day, you can see it dissolving in the clouds.

b. Grammar and Phonetics. Of a consonant sound: subject to mutation (see mutation n. 5). Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > mutation

mutable1707

1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica 300 The Consonants are divided into Mutable and Immutable. The Mutable are such as by the Addition of an h, or else by a full point (.) above them, either alter or lose their Pronunciation, as b, c [etc.].

1808 W. Neilson Introd. Irish Gram. i. 5 The sounds of the mutable consonants, when aspirated, differ materially from those which they receive, when simple.

1837 G. Phillips Elem. Syriac Gram. 28 Nouns of many syllables, the last of which is mutable, are exemplified in the following Table.

1876 Atlantic Monthly 37 306/1 The mutable consonants are nine; namely, c, p, t, b, d, g, ii, m, rh.

1913 J. M. Jones Welsh Gram. 164 The mutable consonants..normally underwent the soft mutation between a vowel and a sonant.

2. Inconstant in mind, will, or disposition; fickle; variable. Now chiefly literary and poetic.

ΘΚΠ

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

ficklea1275

mutablec1425

fleeting1553

rolling1561

unbottomed?1674

motley1755

mobile1778

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

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1856 Her hertes ben..so mevynge and mutable.

a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 220 (MED) To you, dere herte, variant and mutable.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcj^v Least the sight..might..also wyn the hartes of the mutable commonaltie.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlviij The mutable mynde of quene Elyzabeth.

1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. vii. 260 They call Fortune whatsoeuer is doubtfull... And for this cause they feigne her a mutable and blinde goddesse.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 194 A mutable, wavering, unconstant minded person.

1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iii. sig. F2 - F2^v Your Minds are so very mutable, that whatever you think at present, you're of a quite different Opinion before you can utter it.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 85 Paris with her servile sons, A headstrong, mutable, ferocious race, Bow'd to the invader's yoke.

1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III cvi. 58 A child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind, A wit as various.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. vii. 468 Ever variable and mutable as woman, Elizabeth was perplexing and baffling to her counsellors.

a1918 I. Rosenberg Poems (1922) 103 Ten immutable rules, a moon For mutable lampless men.

1978 H. Carpenter Inklings (1981) ii. i. 89 She is mutable: in fact she is faithless, is dallying with Diomedes.

3. Biology. Capable of undergoing genetic mutation; liable to mutate frequently.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > mutation > capable of

mutable1905

1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. 319 Mutable, able to produce mutants.

1908 J. A. Thomson Heredity iii. 91 There he [sc. de Vries] found his long-looked-for mutable plant, an evening primrose.

1928 Genetics 13 360 To designate a character showing frequent heritable changes, the terms ‘mutable’, or ‘frequently mutating’ will be used.

1972 Molecular & Gen. Genetics 114 144 (heading) The genetics of a new mutable allele at the white locus in Drosophila melanogaster.

1990 Mutagenesis 5 529/1 Some sites within a gene are more mutable by acridines than others.

4. Astrology. Designating or relating to all or any of four signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, which are regarded as bestowing certain qualities (usually including intelligence, adaptability, and skill in communication) on people born under them. Contrasted with fixed, cardinal.

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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > type of sign

obedienta1393

tortuousc1400

ruminant1633

mute1658

masculine1696

mutable1928

1928 E. Adams Astrol. 25 Gemini is an airy, mutable sign, so lacking in stability that it..will nearly always be influenced by some other planet.

1962 J. Lynch Coffee Table Bk. Astrol. iv. 48 In the half-title page introducing each zodiac sign, the sign is denoted as being Fixed, Cardinal, or Mutable.

1973 F. Sakoian & L. S. Acker Astrologer's Handbk. i. 19 The mutable quadruplicity is composed of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces.

1991 C. Mansall Discover Astrol. 52/1 In common with the four mutable signs of the zodiac, the cadent houses are concerned with the intellect.

B. n.

†1. In plural. Things capable of change. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing

weathercocka1300

wind?a1513

Proteus1528

chameleon1586

moon's man1598

vane1598

mooncalf1607

remover1609

tarand1641

inconstant1647

mutables1652

changeablea1711

kaleidoscope1819

phantasmagoria1822

palimpsest1845

variable1846

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 150 Having its inherance in movables or mutables.

†2. Grammar and Phonetics. A mutable consonant (see sense A. 1b). Obsolete.

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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun]

consonant1603

mutable1767

articulation1849

supradental1881

contoid1943

non-vocoid1943

1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet 417 Among the letters which are called mutables, there are two ways by which those are silenced in speaking.

1808 W. Neilson Introd. Irish Lang. i. 4 [Letters] capable of aspiration, or mutables.

1821 E. O'Reilly Irish Dict. Introd. 2 The division of the consonants into mutables and immutables.

3. With the: that which is liable to change.

ΚΠ

1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 184 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.

1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 12 Ever the mutable, Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering.

1955 A. C. Rich Diamond Cutters 96 What lends us anchor but the mutable?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mutable
释义	mutableadj.n. Brit. /ˈmjuːtəbl/, U.S. /ˈmjudəb(ə)l/ Forms: late Middle English– mutable, 1500s muitable, 1500s mutabell; Scottish pre-1700 mutabil, pre-1700 mutabill, pre-1700 1700s– mutable. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin mūtābilis. Etymology: < classical Latin mūtābilis liable to change, changeable, fickle < mūtāre to change (see mutate v.) + -bilis -ble suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin mutabile thing liable to change (early 3rd cent.), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin mūtābilis . Compare Middle French mutable (1576 in an isolated attestation), French mutable (1801). Compare slightly earlier muable adj. A. adj. 1. a. Liable or subject to change or alteration. 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 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. vi. 174 Whiche destynal causes, whan thei passen out fro the bygynnynges of the unmoevable purveaunce, it moot nedes be that thei ne be nat mutable [L. immutabiles]. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 3642 (MED) Of worldly trust, fals & ful mutable, Who cast no pereil til þat it be-falle, In-stede of sugre he tasteth galle. ?1521 A. Barclay Bk. Codrus & Mynalcas sig. D Protheus,..Mutable of fygure, oftymes in one hour. a1525 Coventry Leet Bk. 590 With-oute whom [sc. Fortune], sithen non playnly can prosper, That in this muitable lyfe ar nowe procedyng, I am come thurgh love. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. xv. 89 Although no lawes but positiue be mutable, yet all are not mutable which be positiue. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vii. 306 There is no East and West in Nature; nor are those absolute and invariable, but respective and mutable points. View more context for this quotation 1675 R. Vaughan Disc. Coin & Coinage Ep. Ded. sig. A5 I shall not undertake to say, but that in the Tables of values, in these mutable times, some variation may happen. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 39. ⁋15 The Use of Clothes continues, though the Fashion of them has been mutable. 1783 J. Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. ii. i. 347 Mutable Flycatcher. Muscicapa mutata. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance xc Her mutable countenance had now all the fixedness and paleness of marble. 1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. xvi. 428 Like all other laws those of the Kirk proved to be mutable. 1940 E. Hemingway For whom Bell Tolls xiii. 164 When you committed either fornication or adultery you recognized your own personal fallibility of that so mutable substitute for the apostles' creed, the party line. 1978 C. James Flying Visits (1984) 47 The city is infinitely mutable. Looking back on it from the Staten Island ferry on a rainy day, you can see it dissolving in the clouds. b. Grammar and Phonetics. Of a consonant sound: subject to mutation (see mutation n. 5). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > sound changes > [adjective] > mutation mutable1707 1707 E. Lhuyd Archæologia Britannica 300 The Consonants are divided into Mutable and Immutable. The Mutable are such as by the Addition of an h, or else by a full point (.) above them, either alter or lose their Pronunciation, as b, c [etc.]. 1808 W. Neilson Introd. Irish Gram. i. 5 The sounds of the mutable consonants, when aspirated, differ materially from those which they receive, when simple. 1837 G. Phillips Elem. Syriac Gram. 28 Nouns of many syllables, the last of which is mutable, are exemplified in the following Table. 1876 Atlantic Monthly 37 306/1 The mutable consonants are nine; namely, c, p, t, b, d, g, ii, m, rh. 1913 J. M. Jones Welsh Gram. 164 The mutable consonants..normally underwent the soft mutation between a vowel and a sonant. 2. Inconstant in mind, will, or disposition; fickle; variable. Now chiefly literary and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective] > of persons ficklea1275 mutablec1425 fleeting1553 rolling1561 unbottomed?1674 motley1755 mobile1778 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 c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1856 Her hertes ben..so mevynge and mutable. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 220 (MED) To you, dere herte, variant and mutable. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cxcj^v Least the sight..might..also wyn the hartes of the mutable commonaltie. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xlviij The mutable mynde of quene Elyzabeth. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis iv. vii. 260 They call Fortune whatsoeuer is doubtfull... And for this cause they feigne her a mutable and blinde goddesse. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie ii. 194 A mutable, wavering, unconstant minded person. 1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks iii. sig. F2 - F2^v Your Minds are so very mutable, that whatever you think at present, you're of a quite different Opinion before you can utter it. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 85 Paris with her servile sons, A headstrong, mutable, ferocious race, Bow'd to the invader's yoke. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III cvi. 58 A child Most mutable in wishes, but in mind, A wit as various. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. vii. 468 Ever variable and mutable as woman, Elizabeth was perplexing and baffling to her counsellors. a1918 I. Rosenberg Poems (1922) 103 Ten immutable rules, a moon For mutable lampless men. 1978 H. Carpenter Inklings (1981) ii. i. 89 She is mutable: in fact she is faithless, is dallying with Diomedes. 3. Biology. Capable of undergoing genetic mutation; liable to mutate frequently. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > [adjective] > changes or actions of genes or chromosomes > mutation > capable of mutable1905 1905 F. E. Clements Res. Methods Ecol. 319 Mutable, able to produce mutants. 1908 J. A. Thomson Heredity iii. 91 There he [sc. de Vries] found his long-looked-for mutable plant, an evening primrose. 1928 Genetics 13 360 To designate a character showing frequent heritable changes, the terms ‘mutable’, or ‘frequently mutating’ will be used. 1972 Molecular & Gen. Genetics 114 144 (heading) The genetics of a new mutable allele at the white locus in Drosophila melanogaster. 1990 Mutagenesis 5 529/1 Some sites within a gene are more mutable by acridines than others. 4. Astrology. Designating or relating to all or any of four signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, which are regarded as bestowing certain qualities (usually including intelligence, adaptability, and skill in communication) on people born under them. Contrasted with fixed, cardinal. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > type of sign obedienta1393 tortuousc1400 ruminant1633 mute1658 masculine1696 mutable1928 1928 E. Adams Astrol. 25 Gemini is an airy, mutable sign, so lacking in stability that it..will nearly always be influenced by some other planet. 1962 J. Lynch Coffee Table Bk. Astrol. iv. 48 In the half-title page introducing each zodiac sign, the sign is denoted as being Fixed, Cardinal, or Mutable. 1973 F. Sakoian & L. S. Acker Astrologer's Handbk. i. 19 The mutable quadruplicity is composed of Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces. 1991 C. Mansall Discover Astrol. 52/1 In common with the four mutable signs of the zodiac, the cadent houses are concerned with the intellect. B. n. †1. In plural. Things capable of change. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > changeableness > [noun] > changeable person or thing weathercocka1300 wind?a1513 Proteus1528 chameleon1586 moon's man1598 vane1598 mooncalf1607 remover1609 tarand1641 inconstant1647 mutables1652 changeablea1711 kaleidoscope1819 phantasmagoria1822 palimpsest1845 variable1846 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 150 Having its inherance in movables or mutables. †2. Grammar and Phonetics. A mutable consonant (see sense A. 1b). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > consonant > [noun] consonant1603 mutable1767 articulation1849 supradental1881 contoid1943 non-vocoid1943 1767 J. Parsons Remains of Japhet 417 Among the letters which are called mutables, there are two ways by which those are silenced in speaking. 1808 W. Neilson Introd. Irish Lang. i. 4 [Letters] capable of aspiration, or mutables. 1821 E. O'Reilly Irish Dict. Introd. 2 The division of the consonants into mutables and immutables. 3. With the: that which is liable to change. ΚΠ 1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 184 Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting. 1882 W. Whitman Leaves of Grass (new ed.) 12 Ever the mutable, Ever materials, changing, crumbling, re-cohering. 1955 A. C. Rich Diamond Cutters 96 What lends us anchor but the mutable? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425
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