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Impassible, -ibil, a. Also: -abyll. [ME. inpassyble (a 1340), impassyble (1491), eccl. L. impassibil-is.] Impassible; incapable of suffering or pain; insusceptible of injury. —(a) 1490 Irland Mir. fol. 143 b.
Efter the instant that the saule of Jhesu partit fra his body it was impassible … and it remanit in hie glore and inpassibilite 1562-3 Winȝet I. 87/9.
We demand gif our Saluiour … enduit nocht His mortall and passible body with the propirteis … of an immortal and impassible body 1581 Burne Disput. 38 b.
The heauenlie, spiritual, immortal, and impassibil body of Christ(b) c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6115.
All mortall men salbe maid … Impassabyll, … That fyre nor swerd may do to thame no pane
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