Obs. Also 5 vertybylyte, 6 vertibilite. [ad. med.L. vertibilitāt-, vertibilitās: see next and -ITY. Cf. Sp. vertibilidad.] Capacity for turning or changing; changeableness, inconstancy, mutability.
1447. Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 255. Whom fro servyl condycyoun fortune up hente Of hyr whele by vertybylyte And put hym in the state of hy degre.
a. 1529. Skelton, Agst. Venemous Tongues, Wks. I. 134. Ye are so full of vertibilite, And of frenetyke folabilite.
a. 1617. P. Bayne, On Eph. i. 11 (1618), 268. God may … will that his creature shall sinne, being suffered to it selfe, by accident of it own liberty and vertibilitie.
1675. H. More, in R. Ward, Life (1710), 296. In this capacity of being United with the Matter, consists the Liberty and Vertibility of the Soul.
