a. Obs. Also 6 -ible. [f. FALL v. + -ABLE.] Capable of falling, liable to fall.

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1548.  Hall, Chron., 177 b. The feble foundation of this fallible buildyng.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 487/2. Unlesse God had made man fallable, there had beene no praise of his workes or vertue.

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a. 1656.  Bp. Hall, Rem., Wks. (1660), 371. Man, as he was creable, fallable, saveable.

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