a. arch. rare. [f. ERR v. + -ABLE.] Fallible, liable to err.

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1665.  J. Sergeant, Sure-footing, 217. Experience teaching that men differ in such Judgments and are errable.

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1705.  Hickeringill, Priest-cr., IV. (1721), 219. The punishment of Schismaticks, that are Deserters from an errable Church, is unaccountable nonsense.

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1715.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. Pref. 8. Very errable and uninspir’d Penman.

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a. 1718.  Penn, Tracts, Wks. (1726), I. 604. Man is Errable.

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1741.  Berkeley, Lett., 7 June, Wks. 1871, IV. 272. We hold all mankind to be peccable and errable, even the Pope himself.

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1839.  J. Rogers, Antipopopr., II. ii. 116. Errable, liable to mistake.

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  Hence Errableness, Obs., liability to error.

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1653.  W. Mountague, Devout Ess., iv. § 4. Considering the errableness of our judgments, when extended to foreign and remote subjects.

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1667.  Decay Chr. Piety, xvii. (1683), 355. The errableness of our nature.

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1775.  in Ash.

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1828.  in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.

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  Errable, -bull, obs. forms of EARABLE.

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