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单词 passible
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passibleadj.

Brit. /ˈpasᵻbl/, U.S. /ˈpæsəb(ə)l/
Forms: Middle English passibil, Middle English passybyl, Middle English possibul (transmission error), Middle English–1500s passyble, Middle English– passible; also Scottish pre-1700 passibil.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French passible; Latin passibilis.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French passible capable of feeling or suffering (c1160–3 in Old French; 1402 in sense ‘sensitive’ (compare sense 3); French passible ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin passibilis capable of feeling or suffering (Vetus Latina, Tertullian), capable of being suffered (5th cent.), subject to injury, easily hurt (1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin pass- , past participial stem of patī to suffer (see patient adj. and n.) + -ibilis -ible suffix. In sense 2 probably influenced by association with pass v.
1. Chiefly Theology. Capable of suffering or feeling; susceptible to sensation or emotion. Cf. patible adj.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > [adjective]
passiblec1384
apprehensivea1398
feelinga1400
sensible?c1400
sufferablec1400
perceptible?a1430
sensatea1500
sensive?1541
senting1572
patible1602
sentient1632
sensile1650
sensatinga1652
perceptive1652
percipient1692
perceiving1736
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > [adjective]
passiblec1384
susceptive1577
impressive1593
waxy1594
eath1596
impressible1626
mutual1657
responsive1657
open1672
susceptible1709
unsteeled1744
unblunted1775
sensate1788
affectible1796
tangible1813
suscipient1815
impressionable1833
impressional1860
unseared1860
reachable1873
passionful1902
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Deeds xxvi. 23 If Crist passible [v.r. is passyble], or able to suffre, [etc.].
c1425 Prose Versions New Test.: Deeds (Cambr.) (1904) xxvi. 23 (MED) Criste was possibul [v.r. passybyl].
a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) v. xi. f. cccxli/2 For the loue of the, he was made man passyble & mortall, whiche was Inmortall & Impassyble.
a1569 M. Coverdale Hope Faithful (1574) xxv. 177 Hereout now it followeth, that the soules are passible.
1594 R. Ashley tr. L. le Roy Interchangeable Course viii. f. 101 Pythagoras was of opinion, that the first cause was not sensible, nor passible.
1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική vi. 21 The Councell is blasphemous in saying that Christs glorified body is passible and frangible by naturall manducation.
1691 R. Baxter Reply to Mr. Beverley's Answer 6 The Paradise Saints have bodies of flesh, passible, and such as must have food.
1719 D. Waterland Vindic. Christ's Divinity xxvi. 414 It might as reasonably be pretended that the Λόγοσ as such, was Visible, and Comprehensible, and changed into a frail Man, as that He was passible.
1742 F. Blyth Serm. Every Sunday II. vi. 262 Thomas, who fear'd not to die with his Lord while passible, fear'd to believe in his Lord when become impassible.
1872 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 425 God is a being morally passible.
1917 J. V. Bartlet & A. J. Carlyle Christianity in Hist. iii. vi. 442 The problem whether the body as given to the disciples at the Institution was passible..or impassible.
1996 Church Times 12 Jan. 1/2 In classical Christian theology, only the humanity of Jesus is regarded as ‘passible’.
2. Liable to undergo change or decay. Obsolete.
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the world > time > change > changeableness > [adjective]
slidinga900
wankleeOE
windyc1000
unsteadfastc1200
fleeting?c1225
loose?c1225
brotelc1315
unstablec1340
varyingc1340
variantc1374
motleyc1380
ungroundedc1380
muablea1393
passiblea1393
remuablea1393
changeablea1398
movablea1398
variablec1397
slidderya1400
ticklec1400
variantc1412
flitting1413
mutable?a1425
movingc1425
flaskisable1430
flickering1430
transmutablec1430
vertible1447
brittlea1450
ficklea1450
permutablec1450
unfirmc1450
uncertain1477
turnable1483
unsteadfast1483
vagrantc1522
inconstant1526
alterable?1531
stirringc1540
slippery1548
various1552
slid?1553
mutala1561
rolling1561
weathery1563
unconstant1568
interchangeable1574
fluctuant1575
stayless1575
transitive1575
voluble1575
changeling1577
queasy1579
desultory1581
huff-puff1582
unstaid1586
vagrant1586
changeful1590
floating1594
Protean1594
unstayed1594
swimming1596
anchorless1597
mobilec1600
ticklish1601
catching1603
labile1603
unrooted1604
quicksilvered1605
versatile1605
insubstantial1607
uncertain1609
brandling1611
rootless1611
squeasy1611
wind-changinga1616
insolid1618
ambulatory1625
versatilous1629
plastic1633
desultorious1637
unbottomed1641
fluid1642
fluent1648
yea-and-nay1648
versipellous1650
flexile1651
uncentred1652
variating1653
chequered1656
slideable1662
transchangeative1662
weathercock-like1663
flicketing1674
fluxa1677
lapsable1678
wanton1681
veering1684
upon the weathercock1702
contingent1703
unsettled?1726
fermentable1731
afloat1757
brickle1768
wavy1795
vagarious1798
unsettled1803
fitful1810
metamorphosical1811
undulating1815
tittupya1817
titubant1817
mutative1818
papier mâché1818
teetotum1819
vacillating1822
capricious1823
sensitive1828
quicksilvery1829
unengrafted1829
fluxionala1834
proteiform1833
liquid1835
tottlish1835
kaleidoscopic1846
versative1846
kaleidoscopical1858
tottery1861
choppy1865
variative1874
variational1879
wimbly-wambly1881
fluctuable1882
shifty1882
giveable1884
shifty1884
tippy1886
mutatory1890
upsettable1890
rocky1897
undulatory1897
streaky1898
tottly1905
tipply1906
up and down1907
inertialess1927
sometimey1946
rise-and-fall1950
switchable1961
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) v. 771 (MED) 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.
c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Katherine (Arun. 396) (1893) iv. 1712 (MED) Of nature a persone whiche is sempiterne, To sey of it that it is passyble Semeth to me a ful gret insolible.
a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1965) II. 36 His haly body was passible eftir that the saule partit fra it.
1533 T. Elyot Of Knowl. Wise Man H8v He shall therby not onely remembre that he is passible & therefore no god.
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels 83 The aire is both passible, and corruptible, and may easily be corrupted and changed.
1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. i. 15 That Bodies are passible and divisible, in infinitum, and continuous as are also a line, superficies, place, and time.
1696 J. Sergeant Method to Sci. 61 If it be consider'd according to Extrinsecals, then, either according to the Causes from which it may suffer or be variable, which we call Passible Quality, if steddy; or Passion, if sudden and fleeting.
3. Of a part of the body: subject to injury; easily hurt, sensitive. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 42 Among alle þe parties of þe body, þe blak of þe yȝe..is most passible [L. maxime est passibilis] & þerfore sonnest I-greued & I-hert.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 43 Þe temples ben passible [L. sunt passibilia] & liȝtliche & hastiliche I-hert.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 42 Þe..braine panne is..Of alle figures..vnneþes passibil [L. passibilis].
4. Passive. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [adjective] > involving subjection to action or influence > undergoing an action
passivea1398
suffering1398
patient?a1425
passible?1533
pathic1857
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Cciii What it is of vnderstandyng actyue and passyble.
5. Capable of being suffered or felt. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective]
sensiblea1398
feelablec1443
perceivablec1475
sensual1529
passible1558
perceptible1567
sensitive1577
distinguishable1611
discernable1627
discernible1633
perceptive1740
appreciable?1775
the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > [adjective] > capable of producing an effect
passible1558
1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes xv. f. lxxxviii Although God doth punishe and afflict vs, yet he doth it not with passible anger.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. ii. vi. 32 His [sc. the Sensible Faculty's] obiect in generall is a sensible or passible qualitie, because the sense is affected by it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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