vincible

From Latin vincibilis (“conquerable”), from vincere (“to conquer”).

vincible (not comparable)

1. Capable of being defeated or overcome; assailable or vulnerable.
   • a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:

     He, not easily vincible in spirit […] drew his sword.

   • 1796, William Paley, A View of the Evidences of Christianity:

     vincible by human aid

• (capable of being defeated): conquerable, defeatable, weak

• (antonym(s) of “capable of being defeated”): invincible, unconquerable

• vincibility
• vincible ignorance
• vincibly

vincible (plural vincibles)

1. vincible

• vinciblement

• “vincible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.