vertible

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adjective

Able to turn or to be turned; changeable.

OriginOld French vertible ← Latin vertibilis →
First used 15th–17th CC.Scrabble 13
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Meanings

adjectivevertible (comparative more vertible, superlative most vertible)

comparative more vertible · superlative most vertible

  1. obsoleteAble to turn or to be turned; changeable.First known use 15th–17th CC.

    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?

    1667, Henry More, Divine Dialogues, II.20

Origin

  1. Latinvertibilis
  2. Old Frenchvertible
  3. Englishvertible

From the Old French vertible, from Latin vertibilis from the stem of vertō (“to turn”).

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Chicago

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