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- adjective rare
changeable ;protean ; having a form, nature or appearance that changes often
Etymologies
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Formed from versi- ‘turning, changing’ (combinatory form of Latin versus ‘turn’) + ultimately Latin pellis ‘skin’. (Used initially as a word of unknown origin in Nathaniel Ward's Discolliminium, or A Most Obedient Reply to a Late Book called 'Bounds and Bonds' By B)
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she commented on the word versipellous
Having the faculty of changing the skin (from Latin versipell-is, fr. versĕre, vertĕre, to turn + pellis, skin).
August 6, 2008
reesetee commented on the word versipellous
A convenient faculty indeed!
August 6, 2008