a. Obs. [ad. OF. flechisable (also spelt flacisable), f. flechir to bend.] Pliable, inconstant, changeable.
1430. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, I. vi. (1513), D iv b.
| As doth the mone they be so flaskesable | |
| Who trusteth them shal fynde them ful vnstable. | |
| Ibid. (c. 1430), Bochas, IV. xv. (1554), 116. | |
| Fortune of kynde is so flaskisable, | |
| A monstruous beeste departed manyfold, | |
| A slidyng serpent, turnyng & vnstable, | |
| Slepir to gripe; on whom ther is non hold. |
