† Cullible. World English Historical Dictionary

† Cullible. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. † Cullible

a. Obs. [This adj., which is presupposed in the derivative cullibility (known 1728), would normally be derived from a verb cull; but none such is recorded; cf. however CULL sb.2, CULLY v.2 Gullible, gullibility, from GULL v., appear much later than cullibility.] Easily made a ‘cull’ or fool of; gullible.

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1822.  Hazlitt, Table-t., Spirit of Partizanship (1852), 276. These are lax and cullible in their notions of political warfare.

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