† culliˈbility Obs.
Also -ability.
[In form from cullible (of which, however, early instances have not yet been found).]
The quality of being cullible; gullibility.
| 1728 Swift Lett. to Pope 16 July, Providence never designed him to be above two and twenty, by his thoughtlessness and cullibility. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. II. Case of Conscience, If there is not a fund of honest cullability in man so much the worse. 1807 Opie Lect. Art iii. (1848) 308 Innocent cullibility on one part, and brutality and cunning on the other. 1837 New Monthly Mag. XLIX. 7 The coal-mines of Great Britain may possibly be some day exhausted, but its cullability never. |