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Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.

Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. Dryden.

The state or quality of being infallible; infallibility. Bp. Hall.

Infallible. Shak.

xercise of one's office; with authority. The Vatican Council declares that the Pope, is infallible "when he speaks ex cathedra." Addis & Arnold's Cath. Dict.

t is deemed lucky to be with a caul or membrane over the face. This caul is esteemed an infallible preservative against drowning . . . According to Chysostom, the midwives frequently sold it for magic uses. Grose. I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in the newspapers, at the low price of fifteen guin…

Unfailing; infallible. I have often wished that I knew as certain a remedy for any other distemper. Mead.

ansferring, transmitting, handing down, or communicating; transmission. Tradition is no infallible way of conveyance. Stillingfleet.

Liable to error; fallible.

The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to be deceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.

In a fallible manner.

eccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness. God is infallible, impeccable, and absolutely perfect. P. Skelton.

Incapable of erring; infallible; unerring. "Inerabble and requisite conditions." Sir T. Browne. "Not an inerrable text." Gladstone.

The quality or state of being infallible, or exempt from error; inerrability. Infallibility is the highest perfection of the knowing faculty. Tillotson. Papal infallibility (R. C. Ch.), the dogma that the pope can not, when acting in his official character of supreme pontiff, err in defining a doctrine of Christian fai…

In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.

Wyclif (Rom. viii. 18). To whom also he showed himself alive after his passion, by many infallible proofs. Acts i. 3.

egree. To rate a man by the nature of his companions is a rule frequent indeed, but not infallible. South. You seem not high enough your joys to rate. Dryden.

ot to be appealed from; -- said of a judge or a judgment that can not be overruled. The infallible, unappealable Judge [God]. South. We submitted to a galling yet unappealable necessity. Shelley. -- Un`ap*peal"a*bly, adv.

Not sure; liable to fall or err; fallible. Soon bent his bow, uncertain in his aim. Dryden. Whistling slings dismissed the uncertain stone. Gay.

Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible. [Colloq.] Addison. My honor is infallible and uncomeatable. Congreve.