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passible, a.|ˈpæsɪb(ə)l|
Also 7 erron. -able.
[a. OF. passible (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. late L. passibilis capable of feeling or suffering (Tert.), f. pass-, ppl. stem of patī to suffer: see -ible.]
1. Capable of suffering, liable to suffer; liable to impressions or feelings; susceptible of sensation or of emotion. (Chiefly Theol.)
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxi. 5 He is in generations in passybles, þat ar of generations passiblis. 1382Wyclif Acts xxvi. 23 Whiche thingis the prophetis and Moyses spaken for to be comynge, if Crist passible [gloss or able to suffre]. 1491Caxton Vitas Patrum v. xi. (1495) 341/2 For the loue of the, he was made man passyble & mortall; whiche was Immortall & Impassyble. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 101 Pythagoras was of opinion, that the first cause was not sensible, nor passible. 1691Baxter Repl. Beverley 6 The Paradise Saints have bodies of flesh, passible, and such as must have food. 1719Waterland Vind. Christ's Divinity xxvi. (1720) 414. 1872 Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 425 God is a being morally passible.
†2. Liable to suffer change or decay. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. II. 153 The Sonne and Mone eclipse bothe, That be hem lieve or be hem lothe, Thei soffre; and what thing is passible To ben a god is impossible. 1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 83 The aire is both passible, and corruptible, and may easily be corrupted and changed. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 15 That Bodies are passible and divisible, in infinitum, and continuous as are also a line, superficies, place, and time.
3. Capable of being suffered or felt. ? Obs.
1558Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. xv. 92 Although God doth punishe and afflict vs, yet he doth it not with passible anger. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. ii. vi. (1651) 21 His [the Sensible Faculty's] object in general is a sensible or passible quality, because the sense is affected with it.
†4. = passive. Obs. rare.
c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1057 What it is of understandyng actyve & passyble.
Hence ˈpassibleness = passibility. rare.
1614Brerewood Lang. & Relig. xxv. 181 It [heresy of Eutiches and Dioscorus] drew after it, the heresie of the passiblenesse of the deitie. 1858Bushnell Serm. New Life 347 After all there must be some kind of passibleness in God, else there could be no genuine character in him. |