[f. L. convertibil-is CONVERTIBLE + -ITY: cf. F. convertibilité (13th c.).] The quality of being convertible (in different applications of the adj.).
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. 57. The general characteristics of oracles were ambiguity, obscurity and convertibility, so that one answer would agree with several … events.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 163. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land.
1809. Southey, in Q. Rev., I. 213. Proofs of the convertibility of the Hindoos.
1875. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. II. xxxii. 213. The discoveries recently made of the convertibility of one kind of force into another.
1879. Lubbock, Addr. Pol. & Educ., ii. 42. The Bank Act certainly has secured the convertibility of the note.
