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passibility|pæsɪˈbɪlɪtɪ|
[ad. late L. passibilitās (Arnobius), f. passibilis: see -ity. Cf. F. passibilité (15th c.), OF. passibleté.]
The quality of being passible; capability of suffering, or of receiving impressions from external agents.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxv. 10 Þou led vs in til þe snare of passibilite. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P. R. viii. i. (Bodl. MS.), Þis worlde..schal passe touchinge þis passibilitie and kinde and schappe þat it haþ nowȝe, butte it schal abide euer⁓more touchinge þe substaunce. 1555Bonner Homilies 69 The fourmes and qualities sensible, which in dede are subiecte to passibilitie. 1622Donne Serm. i. (1640) 2 He was defective in nothing; not in Power, as God, not in passibility, as man. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. ii. 483 The very truth that came by Jesus Christ may be said to be summed up in the passibility of God.
†b. Passiveness; inaction; sloth. Obs. rare.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 119 Sa kepis the vertu cardinale the activitee, or passibilitee of mannis governaunce in his lyf. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 228 b, Shall brynge with them theyr olde grosnes, heuynes, & passibilite. |