Middle English Dictionary Entry
passī̆ble adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | passī̆ble adj. Also (error) possibul; pl. passibles. |
| Etymology | OF passible & L passibilis. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Capable of suffering; capable of feeling pain or emotion; also, capable of being changed; of generaciouns ~, from generations subject to suffering and death; (b) anat. subject to injury; easily hurt, sensitive; (c) capable of being shaped.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Deeds 26.23 : If Crist passible [vr. is passyble], or able to suffre, [etc.].
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Roy 1.B.6)Jas.5.17 : Helye was a man lijk to us passible [L passibilis], or able for to suffre.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)5.771 : 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.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)22a/a : Þeiȝ þe soule in himself be euerlastinge..ȝit he is passible & mote soffre for þe bond of þe body þat he is Ioyned to.
- c1425 Bible SNT(1) (Cmb Dd.12.39)Deeds 26.23 : Criste was possibul [vr. passybyl].
- c1450 Capgr.St.Kath.(Arun 396)4.1712 : Of nature a persone whiche is sempiterne, To sey of it that it is passyble Semeth to me a ful gret insolible.
- c1475 Mankind (Folg V.a.354)744 : All þis world was not aprehensyble To dyscharge þin orygynall offence..Tyll Godys own welbelouyde son was obedient and passyble.
- c1475 Wisd.(Folg V.a.354)97 : By knowynge of yowrsylff ȝe may haue felynge Wat Gode ys in yowr sowle sensyble; The more knowynge of yowr selff passyble, Þe more veryly ȝe xall God knowe.
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)4.22.67b : He was passible & myght suffre peynes & diseases.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)71/29 : Mankynde takith all his commyxtions of the elementis, both corruptible and passible, excepte the, which comest into the body by infusion of the hevenes.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.140 : Bodyes and sawles shal..haf joye or suffre payne; The wikked mens bodies shall rise vnshaply and passible.
- c1590(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64(2))71.5 : Before the mone, that is, er any thinge was mayde, he dwellid with the father, & he is in generations in passybles, that ar of generations passiblis.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)42a/b : Among alle þe parties of þe body, þe blak of þe yȝe..is most passible & þerfore sonnest I-greued & I-hert.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)43a/a : Þe temples ben passible & liȝtliche & hastiliche I-hert & I-greued.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)315a/b : Bitter þinges..entreþ depe..and hardeþ þe þinge and makeþ it þe lasse passible.
- ?a1425 *Chauliac(3) (Htrn 95)42b/a : Þe..braine panne is..Of alle figures..vnneþes passibil [L passibilis] & also þe moste and moste takinge & rounde of alle þat haue euen quantite oþer equale quantite.
c
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)162b/b : Þogh þe erþe be among elementes moste stable..it is moste passible of elementz.