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incompossible, a. Now rare.|ɪnkəmˈpɒsɪb(ə)l|
[ad. schol.L. incompossibil-is, f. in- (in-3) + med.L. compossibilis compossible: cf. F. incompossible (1732 in Dict. Trévoux).]
Not possible together; that cannot exist or be true together; wholly incompatible or inconsistent.
1605Answ. Discov. Rom. Doctrine 21 The gouernment of their Eldership, or Presbitery (incompossible with Princes Supremacy) is the cheefest article of their religion. a1640Jackson Creed x. xl. §5 Conditions..whose performance..was very incompatible, though not incompossible with haughty pride or tenacious avarice. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. i. (1702) 248 Things..which in nature seem wholly incompossible (as the schools speak). 1701Beverley Glory of Grace 12, I..illustrate this grand Point by an In-Compossible Supposition. 1864Bowen Logic vi. 169 To adopt the Hamiltonian word, the two Judgments are incompossible. 1877E. Caird Philos. Kant Introd. v. 84 If there be any positive existences which are incompossible—i.e. which cannot be combined without opposition and conflict. |