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infeasible, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈfiːzəb(ə)l|
Also 6 -faisible, 7 -fesible, -fe(a)cible, 7–9 -feasable.
[f. in-3 + feasible. Cf. F. infaisable (17th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Incapable of being accomplished or carried out; impracticable, impossible.
1533St. Papers Hen. VIII, VII. 497 Ye shall say that ye remember ye herd Hym say oones, He wold neuer conclude that mariage, but to do Us good, whiche is nowe infaisible. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xii. 135 Which secrets, although extreamly difficult, and tantum non infesible, yet are they not impossible. 1665Glanvill Scepsis Sci. xiv. 80 But this is so difficult; and..so almost infeasable. 1678Butler Hud. iii. iii. 391 Therefore I hold no Course s' infecible As this of force to win the Jezabel. 1704tr. Boccalini's Lett. fr. Apollo I. 194 Judging the Attempt infeasable. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xiv. 70 Designs which the rising spirit of the nation rendered utterly infeasible. 188119th Cent. No. 48. 239 They pronounced it not only infeasible, but of very doubtful benefit, even could it be carried out.
Hence inˈfeasibleness = infeasibility.
1654W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. vi. §3. 117 He began the work; and being disabus'd in point of the infeasableness, pursu'd his task, and perfected it. |