deceptible

comparative more deceptible · superlative most deceptible

1. obsoleteCapable of being deceived.

   Bright Truth! I grew aweary of the dull, Undeviating, dusty road of Science, Vacant o’ beauty, barren o’ sweetness; I thought—deceptible, ah! too deceptible— The true Elysium lay within the mind Fill’d with amaranthian flow’rs of Fantasie […]

   1822, George Darley, The Errors of Ecstasie, London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, page 39

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   The first and father cause of common Error, is the common infirmity of humane nature; of whose deceptible condition, although perhaps there should not need any other eviction, then the frequent errors we shall our selves commit, even in the expresse declarement hereof: Yet shall we illustrate the same from more infallible constitutions […]

   1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 1, p. 1