EVANGULLIBLE »
By Warren Smith-Sarah H. Leslie-Ken Silva on Mar 19, 2012 in Current Issues, Definitions, Features
EVANGULLIBLE [ee-van guhl’-uh-buhl] [Evangelical: 1525–35; < Late Latin evangelicus (< Late Greek euangelikós; see evangel1 , -ic) + -al1] [Gullible: easily taken in or tricked; earlier cullibility, probably connected to gull, a cant term for “dupe, sucker.” It is perhaps from the bird (see gull (n.), or from verb gull “to swallow” (1530, from O.Fr. goule, […]