invincibleadj.n.

/ɪnˈvɪnsɪb(ə)l/

Forms: Also 1500s invinceable, invinsible, Scottish invinsable, inwynciabill, 1600s invintiable.

Etymology: < French invincible, < Latin invincibilis , < in- (in- prefix⁴) + vincibilis conquerable, < vincĕre to conquer.

A. adj.

1. That cannot be vanquished, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable.

a. Of combatants, fortresses, etc. Invincible Armada n. see armada n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > invincible

insuperablec1340

unvanquishablea1382

unexpugnable1382

invincible1412

unovercomablec1475

unvictable1533

unvincible1554

unvinceable1568

Achillean1579

unconquerable1598

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (1555) iii. xxii. (Digby 232) lf. 80 b/2 Of knyhthod ground of strengþe hardynesse Þe verray stook, and þerto invyncyble.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos viii. 36 As longe as cartage sholde abyde inuyncyble.

a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 271 Our wicht Invinsable sampson sprang þe fra.

1563 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. xxxiv. 344 Taking up armes against the invinceable God and Christ.

1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 45 Thinking the Christians to be invinsible.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 8 The Spanish..invincible Navy, sent to invade England, in the yeere 1588, being dispersed, and proving nothing lesse then invincible.

1679 Season. Adv. Protest. 6 She found out a way to batter these invincible Bulwarks.

1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VI. 374 Who was invincible to the rest of the world.

1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 569 When presumptuous Spain Baptized her fleet invincible in vain.

1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 3 When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 360 They deemed themselves invincible by any force which the Moslems could bring against them.

1894 J. K. Laughton Span. Armada Introd. 29 The name ‘Invincible’, so commonly given to this fleet, was not official..By all the contemporary chroniclers the fleet is spoken of as the Grand Fleet.

b. transferred and figurative (a) of persons in spiritual or mental warfare, argument, etc.; (b) of material or immaterial things, obstacles, habits, conditions, attributes, arguments, etc.: That cannot be overcome, unsurmountable, insuperable.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective] > insuperable

invincible1482

unsuperable1526

unnavigable1609

inexsuperable1623

insuperable1657

insurmountable1696

unsurmountable1701

unreal1965

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > not overcome or overwhelmed > that cannot be

insuperablec1340

unvanquishablea1382

unexpugnable1382

invincible1482

unsuperable1526

inexpugnablea1535

unvincible1554

impugnable1570

conquerless1595

invictivea1607

inaccessible?1611

unsubduable1611

insuppressivea1616

inexsuperable1623

undefeatablea1640

unconquerable1642

irreducible1858

tower-proof1858

insubduable1866

uncrushable1873

unwinnable1972

1482 Monk of Evesham 72 Thys vyse was to her inuyncyble by cause of her imperfeccyon.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQiiii The inuincible charite, the vnsuperable loue & goodnesse of god.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxiii An inuincible reason and an argument infallible.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ij Whether Luther be so inuincible that he can not be confuted or vanquished.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Oo.ij^v/2 The iudgement of Paule in this matter remaineth firme and inuincible.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 146 Jewes..subject to all wrongs and contumelies, which they support with an invincible patience.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 272 I had an invincible Impression upon my Thoughts, that my Deliverance was at hand.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 72 A distance surely not invincible for sledges or other conveyances.

1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 244 I have suffered from an invincible love of short cuts.

c. invincible ignorance [Schol.Latin ignorantia invincibilis (Thomas Aquinas Summa Theol. lxxvi. §2)] : an ignorance the means of overcoming or removing which are not possessed by the ignorant person himself.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > act caused by > redeemable by self > not

invincible ignorance1530

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xliii. f. cxi Ignoraunce of the lawe thoughe yt be inuyncyble doth not excuse.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 How farre better were it with vs, to haue been heathen or infidels, and neuer haue heard of Iesus Christ, that our ignorance had beene simple and invincible.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 15 Dark Corners..where Profaneness lives quietly with invincible Ignorance.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) viii. 107 God only knows..how far our Ignorance is affected or invincible.

1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 424/2 With regard to the guilt of sins ignorantly committed, invincible ignorance altogether excuses from sin.

†2. That cannot be ‘beaten’ or excelled; unsurpassable. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique

unilicheOE

makelessc1225

unevenlyc1230

peerlessc1330

alonea1382

uncomparablea1382

unoverpassablea1382

solea1398

incomparable1412

sans-peer1426

nonpareilc1450

invincible1509

matchless1530

inimitable1531

unmatchable1544

unmatched1548

unpassable1563

alonely1567

inequivalent1568

mateless1570

unparagonized1578

only1581

fellowlessa1586

unimitablea1586

compareless1590

incompared1590

immatchless1595

unequalized1596

nonsuch1598

paragonless1599

immatchable1601

unparalleled1601

uncompeered1602

unpeered1602

imparalleled1604

unpeerable1604

unrivalled1607

uncompanioned1608

unexampled1610

unsurmountable1611

unsurpassable1611

unparagoned1612

patternless1613

unpatterned1617

unique1618

unparallelable1621

parallelless1622

unmatchless1623

single1633

unexemplifieda1634

unsampleda1638

unequalled1639

imparallel1641

unparallel1645

unseconded1646

unexemplary1649

unaccessional1651

unequalable1659

uncome-at-able1694

rivalless1735

untouched1735

unexcelleda1800

unexceeded1813

sans-pareilly1818

unsurpassed1818

unrivallable1823

unapproachable1834

untranscendeda1849

insuperable1849

unbrothered1853

unapproached1856

insurpassable1859

untouchable1867

hors concours1884

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > able to be surpassed > that cannot be surpassed

invincible1509

unsurpassable1799

unbeatable1897

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliii. 211 His most hie actes so moche invyncible.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 73 Titus Livy of Paduva..by whose penne truely invincible, the Acts of the invincible Roman people should be written.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 86 Germans..practising night and day the faculty of drinking, become strong and invincible professors therein.

3. Apparently an error for invisible.

ΚΠ

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 308 A was so forlorne, that his demensions to any thicke sight were inuincible [altered by Rowe to invisible] .

4. Of or pertaining to the Invincibles: see B. b.

ΚΠ

1885 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV.

B. n.

a. One who is invincible.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun] > one who is invincible

invincible1640

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > one who has mastery or superiority > one who is invincible

invincible1640

invincibleship1708

1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 183 Desiring to appeare invincibles, they made no shew of discontent.

1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 13 236 The reputation of his armies was wounded, the invincibles had been put to shame.

b. A member of an Irish assassination society so called, developed from the Fenians about 1881–82.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of

hougher1712

white boys1762

Steel boy1772

defender1788

United Irishman1791

Orangeman1796

marksman1800

Thresher1806

marchman1814

Orangist1822

Rockite1824

Brunswicker1828

Terry Alt1831

whitefoot1831

Repeal Warden1841

Young Irelander1844

Fenian1864

Land-leaguer1878

invincible1883

leaguer1892

Provie1972

1883 Illustr. London News 24 Feb. 186/3 The Irish Invincibles—the ‘Assassination Circle’—organised by one Walsh from the North of England, was formed to ‘make history’ by the ‘removal of tyrants’.

1883 Illustr. London News 24 Feb. 193/2 Carey..says that he was one of the ‘Directory’ of an association called ‘the Irish Invincibles’ organized in November 1881.

1887 Dict. National Biogr. IX. 72/2 The object of the Invincibles was ‘to remove all tyrants from the country’, and several attempts, but without success, were made to assassinate Earl Cowper and Mr. W. E. Forster.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	invincible
释义	invincibleadj.n. /ɪnˈvɪnsɪb(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1500s invinceable, invinsible, Scottish invinsable, inwynciabill, 1600s invintiable. Etymology: < French invincible, < Latin invincibilis , < in- (in- prefix⁴) + vincibilis conquerable, < vincĕre to conquer. A. adj. 1. That cannot be vanquished, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable. a. Of combatants, fortresses, etc. Invincible Armada n. see armada n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > invincible insuperablec1340 unvanquishablea1382 unexpugnable1382 invincible1412 unovercomablec1475 unvictable1533 unvincible1554 unvinceable1568 Achillean1579 unconquerable1598 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy (1555) iii. xxii. (Digby 232) lf. 80 b/2 Of knyhthod ground of strengþe hardynesse Þe verray stook, and þerto invyncyble. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos viii. 36 As longe as cartage sholde abyde inuyncyble. a1525 Ballat Our Lady in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 271 Our wicht Invinsable sampson sprang þe fra. 1563 in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1725) I. xxxiv. 344 Taking up armes against the invinceable God and Christ. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 45 Thinking the Christians to be invinsible. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 8 The Spanish..invincible Navy, sent to invade England, in the yeere 1588, being dispersed, and proving nothing lesse then invincible. 1679 Season. Adv. Protest. 6 She found out a way to batter these invincible Bulwarks. 1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. VI. 374 Who was invincible to the rest of the world. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 569 When presumptuous Spain Baptized her fleet invincible in vain. 1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 3 When that great fleet invincible against her bore in vain The richest spoils of Mexico, the stoutest hearts of Spain. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. x. 360 They deemed themselves invincible by any force which the Moslems could bring against them. 1894 J. K. Laughton Span. Armada Introd. 29 The name ‘Invincible’, so commonly given to this fleet, was not official..By all the contemporary chroniclers the fleet is spoken of as the Grand Fleet. b. transferred and figurative (a) of persons in spiritual or mental warfare, argument, etc.; (b) of material or immaterial things, obstacles, habits, conditions, attributes, arguments, etc.: That cannot be overcome, unsurmountable, insuperable. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > practical impossibility > [adjective] > insuperable invincible1482 unsuperable1526 unnavigable1609 inexsuperable1623 insuperable1657 insurmountable1696 unsurmountable1701 unreal1965 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > not overcome or overwhelmed > that cannot be insuperablec1340 unvanquishablea1382 unexpugnable1382 invincible1482 unsuperable1526 inexpugnablea1535 unvincible1554 impugnable1570 conquerless1595 invictivea1607 inaccessible?1611 unsubduable1611 insuppressivea1616 inexsuperable1623 undefeatablea1640 unconquerable1642 irreducible1858 tower-proof1858 insubduable1866 uncrushable1873 unwinnable1972 1482 Monk of Evesham 72 Thys vyse was to her inuyncyble by cause of her imperfeccyon. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQQiiii The inuincible charite, the vnsuperable loue & goodnesse of god. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxxiii An inuincible reason and an argument infallible. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ij Whether Luther be so inuincible that he can not be confuted or vanquished. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. ix. sig. Oo.ij^v/2 The iudgement of Paule in this matter remaineth firme and inuincible. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 146 Jewes..subject to all wrongs and contumelies, which they support with an invincible patience. 1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 272 I had an invincible Impression upon my Thoughts, that my Deliverance was at hand. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 72 A distance surely not invincible for sledges or other conveyances. 1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) x. 244 I have suffered from an invincible love of short cuts. c. invincible ignorance [Schol.Latin ignorantia invincibilis (Thomas Aquinas Summa Theol. lxxvi. §2)] : an ignorance the means of overcoming or removing which are not possessed by the ignorant person himself. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] > act caused by > redeemable by self > not invincible ignorance1530 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xliii. f. cxi Ignoraunce of the lawe thoughe yt be inuyncyble doth not excuse. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 3 How farre better were it with vs, to haue been heathen or infidels, and neuer haue heard of Iesus Christ, that our ignorance had beene simple and invincible. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 15 Dark Corners..where Profaneness lives quietly with invincible Ignorance. 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) viii. 107 God only knows..how far our Ignorance is affected or invincible. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 424/2 With regard to the guilt of sins ignorantly committed, invincible ignorance altogether excuses from sin. †2. That cannot be ‘beaten’ or excelled; unsurpassable. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > incomparable, unparalleled, or unique unilicheOE makelessc1225 unevenlyc1230 peerlessc1330 alonea1382 uncomparablea1382 unoverpassablea1382 solea1398 incomparable1412 sans-peer1426 nonpareilc1450 invincible1509 matchless1530 inimitable1531 unmatchable1544 unmatched1548 unpassable1563 alonely1567 inequivalent1568 mateless1570 unparagonized1578 only1581 fellowlessa1586 unimitablea1586 compareless1590 incompared1590 immatchless1595 unequalized1596 nonsuch1598 paragonless1599 immatchable1601 unparalleled1601 uncompeered1602 unpeered1602 imparalleled1604 unpeerable1604 unrivalled1607 uncompanioned1608 unexampled1610 unsurmountable1611 unsurpassable1611 unparagoned1612 patternless1613 unpatterned1617 unique1618 unparallelable1621 parallelless1622 unmatchless1623 single1633 unexemplifieda1634 unsampleda1638 unequalled1639 imparallel1641 unparallel1645 unseconded1646 unexemplary1649 unaccessional1651 unequalable1659 uncome-at-able1694 rivalless1735 untouched1735 unexcelleda1800 unexceeded1813 sans-pareilly1818 unsurpassed1818 unrivallable1823 unapproachable1834 untranscendeda1849 insuperable1849 unbrothered1853 unapproached1856 insurpassable1859 untouchable1867 hors concours1884 the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [adjective] > able to be surpassed > that cannot be surpassed invincible1509 unsurpassable1799 unbeatable1897 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xliii. 211 His most hie actes so moche invyncible. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 73 Titus Livy of Paduva..by whose penne truely invincible, the Acts of the invincible Roman people should be written. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 86 Germans..practising night and day the faculty of drinking, become strong and invincible professors therein. 3. Apparently an error for invisible. ΚΠ 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 308 A was so forlorne, that his demensions to any thicke sight were inuincible [altered by Rowe to invisible] . View more context for this quotation 4. Of or pertaining to the Invincibles: see B. b. ΚΠ 1885 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. B. n. a. One who is invincible. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > victor or conqueror > [noun] > one who is invincible invincible1640 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [noun] > one who has mastery or superiority > one who is invincible invincible1640 invincibleship1708 1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 183 Desiring to appeare invincibles, they made no shew of discontent. 1815 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 13 236 The reputation of his armies was wounded, the invincibles had been put to shame. b. A member of an Irish assassination society so called, developed from the Fenians about 1881–82. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > Irish politics > [noun] > societies or associations > members of hougher1712 white boys1762 Steel boy1772 defender1788 United Irishman1791 Orangeman1796 marksman1800 Thresher1806 marchman1814 Orangist1822 Rockite1824 Brunswicker1828 Terry Alt1831 whitefoot1831 Repeal Warden1841 Young Irelander1844 Fenian1864 Land-leaguer1878 invincible1883 leaguer1892 Provie1972 1883 Illustr. London News 24 Feb. 186/3 The Irish Invincibles—the ‘Assassination Circle’—organised by one Walsh from the North of England, was formed to ‘make history’ by the ‘removal of tyrants’. 1883 Illustr. London News 24 Feb. 193/2 Carey..says that he was one of the ‘Directory’ of an association called ‘the Irish Invincibles’ organized in November 1881. 1887 Dict. National Biogr. IX. 72/2 The object of the Invincibles was ‘to remove all tyrants from the country’, and several attempts, but without success, were made to assassinate Earl Cowper and Mr. W. E. Forster. 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