Obs. [See next and -ITY.] a. = VERSATILITY 2. b. Aptness or readiness to be changed or turned (round).
1673. O. Walker, Educ., xi. 122. Wit … consists (saith Thesauro) in 1. perspicacity, which is the consideration of all … circumstances: and 2. versability, or speedy comparing them together.
1721. Bailey, Versability, an aptness to be turn’d, chang’d or wound any way.
1762. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, V. xlii. By the versability of this great engine, round which they are twisted, to open new tracts of enquiry.
