Hypertext Webster Gateway: "infallible"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Infallible \In*fal"li*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not + fallible: cf. F.
infallible.]
1. Not fallible; not capable of erring; entirely exempt from
liability to mistake; unerring; inerrable. --Dryden.

2. Not liable to fail, deceive, or disappoint; indubitable;
sure; certain; as, infallible evidence; infallible
success; an infallible remedy.

To whom also he showed himself alive, after his
passion, by many infallible proofs. --Acts i. 3.

3. (R. C. Ch.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines
touching faith or morals. See {Papal infallibility}, under
{Infallibility}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

infallible
adj : incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote"; "an
infallible memmory"; "the Catholic Church considers the
Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible" [ant: {fallible}]


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