"Cullibility" Quotes from Famous Books
... impossible to fix the line of demarcation, which divides them from the most credulous of men; to shew the land-marks by which they can be discriminated from those who reason with the least conclusive persuasion. If the theist refuses to follow up the fanatic in every step of his cullibility, he is at least more inconsequent than the last, who having admitted upon hearsay an inconsistent, whimsical doctrine, also adopts upon report the ridiculous, strange means which it furnishes him. The first sets forth with an absurd ... — The System of Nature, Vol. 2 • Baron D'Holbach
... credulousness &c adj.; cullibility^, gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy &c 984 [Obs.]; misjudgment &c 481. credulous person &c (dupe) 547. V. be credulous &c adj.; jurare in verba magistri [Lat.]; follow ... — Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget |