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unˈpossible, a. Now only dial.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
Impossible. (Very common c 1400–1660.)
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. xi. 225 Poul prouiþ it is vnpossible riche men in heuene. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 153 Þer is no þing vnpossible to stalworþe nature. 1453in Wars Eng. in France (1864) II. 488 It is unpossible unto us so sone to purvey for the saide socours. 1471Fortescue Wks. (1869) 535 The forsayd minor is now clerely proved unpossible. 1523Ld. Berners tr. Froiss. I. cxlv. 173 The frenchemen coude natte passe no way, without they wolde haue gone through the marshes, the whiche was vnpossyble. 1570T. Wilson Demosth. Orat., Life 127 Vnpossible it is for anye one to deceyue him. 1610Fletcher Faithful Shepherdess ii. i, Whose grief..to anothers eye May seem unpossible of remedy. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 169 There's nothing requir'd of us..which is unpossible. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. ii. i, By the laws, your worship, that's parfectly unpossible. 1825Brockett N.C. Words, Unpossible, for impossible. The word is frequent with the vulgar in the North. 1844–in Sc. and dialect use (Eng. Dial. Dict.). 1866Flo. Marryat For Ever & Ever II. 194 That is an unpossible thing, Sir.
absol.1581Mulcaster Positions iv. 17 Nothing giuen to the vnpossible, where possibilitie must take place.
Hence † unˈpossibleness; † unˈpossibly adv.
1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer iv. Ss ii, The vnpossiblenes of y⊇ matter. 1658Osborne Adv. Son Wks. (1673) 175 Therefore not unpossibly the cause why the Devil was so earnest..to make them commit if [sc. a sin]. 1659― Misc. Ess. Paradoxes 176, I confesse the Party may not unpossibly be very Rich. |