[ adj ] incapable of failure or error <adj.all> an infallible antidotean infallible memory the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible no doctor is infallible
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}.
Stovall concedes the patterns in GM's stock chart aren't an infallible guide to the market outlook.
Denying the validity of all existing moral values, it pronounced itself infallible and generated an entire fictional universe to confirm its legitimacy.
Interest rate guru Henry Kaufman, for instance, hasn't been infallible in recent years.
The point is that the policing activity of the bond markets tends to eliminate the inflationary middle ground. Not infallible As for growth, the markets' ability to impose their will on economic policymakers was once again in evidence this week.
These tests are not infallible.
While not infallible, the chance of problems is greatly reduced if you "select a bank that has one of the highest ratings," says Richard D. Driscoll of the Massachusetts Bankers Association.
Compensating volume increases can only be dreamed of at this stage, while it is hard to see further scope for removing costs. In some senses yesterday's re-rating is only overdue acknowledgement that Mr Teare is not infallible.
Nor is it wise to assume that directors' instincts are infallible. Back in 1991, after one year of publishing the directors' dealing table, I conducted an exercise to see how investors would have done if they had acted on the basis of that first table.
Three consecutive declines in the gauge are viewed as a fairly reliable - although not infallible - signal that the economy is headed for a recession.
But they are less than infallible guides to policy.
"I think what it tells me is that California is not infallible, despite what people say about how well its economy is doing and its insulation," Chaney said.
Watching the volume figures can thus prove a useful, although by no means infallible, check.
But he was far from infallible.
The idea, as suggested by Greenspan, that the Fed is neither all-powerful nor infallible isn't exactly new.
While encyclicals are not infallible pronouncements, Catholics are expected to heed the message.
Lazareth noted that Catholics see some church teachings as "infallible" while Lutherans prefer to speak of the church's "indefectability" in referring to God's preserving it from errors on essentials.