Word Meanings - ILLUSIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Liable to illusion.
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- ILLUSIONABLE
Liable to illusion. - ILLUSIONIST
One given to illusion; a visionary dreamer. - ILLUSION
A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder. Note: Some modern writers distinguish between an illusion and hallucination, - LIABLE
1. Bound or obliged in law or equity; responsible; answerable; as, the surety is liable for the debt of his principal. 2. Exposed to a certain contingency or casualty, more or less probable; -- with to and an infinitive or noun; as, liable to slip; - LIABLENESS
Quality of being liable; liability. - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - DISILLUSION
The act or process of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. Lowell. - PLIABLE
1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be - COMPLIABLE
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin. - CONCILIABLE
A small or private assembly, especially of an ecclesiastical nature. Bacon. - DISILLUSIONIZE
To disenchant; to free from illusion. "The bitter disillusionizing experience of postnuptial life." W. Black. - RELIABLE
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy. "A reliable witness to the truth of the miracles." A. Norton. The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object. Coleridge. According to General Livingston's - DISILLUSIONMENT
The act of freeing from an illusion, or the state of being freed therefrom. - APPLIABLE
Applicable; also, compliant. Howell. - MULTIPLIABLE
Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n. - IMPLIABLE
Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding. - INCOMPLIABLE
Not compliable; not conformable. - ALLIABLE
Able to enter into alliance. - UNRELIABLE
Not reliable; untrustworthy. See Reliable. -- Un`re*li"a*ble*ness, n. Alcibiades . . . was too unsteady, and (according to Mr. Coleridge's coinage) "unreliable;" or perhaps, in more correct English, too "unrelyuponable." De Quincey. - AFFILIABLE
Capable of being affiliated to or on, or connected with in origin.