| 单词 |
pervertible |
| 释义 |
pervertible, a.|pəˈvɜːtɪb(ə)l| [f. L. type *pervertibilis, f. pervertĕre (see -ble): cf. obs. F. pervertible (16th c.).] Capable of being perverted.
1611Cotgr., Corrompable, corrumpable, corruptible, peruertable, deprauable. 1651Davenant Gondibert Pref. (1673) 15 Armies, if they were not pervertible by Faction, yet are to Commonwealths like Kings Physitians to poor Patients. 1711Shaftesbury Charac., Moralists i. iii, The Depravity of Minds..dependent on such pervertible Organs. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. iii. lxiv. 473 New immigrants, politically incompetent, and therefore easily pervertible. Hence pervertiˈbility, capability of being perverted; perˈvertibly adv., in a pervertible manner.
1850Robertson Serm. Ser. iv. xiii, That part of human pervertibility is an awful fact and mystery. 1642Animadv. on Observator's Notes 4 The Parliament is the Vniversall unerring and unpervertibly just body of the Kingdome. |

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