passible
[pas-uh-buh l]
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adjective
capable of feeling, especially suffering; susceptible of sensation or emotion; impressionable.
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Origin of passible
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Historical Examples of passible
Qualities, because they change, matter must be passible, iii.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4Plotinos (Plotinus)
Passible, "obedient and passible" (M33,a), able to feel or suffer.
He has opened the way and made it passible, and now invites all to come and find pardon; and sets the time when they should come.
Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca StewardT. G. Steward
Passible, pas′i-bl, adj. susceptible of suffering, or of impressions from external agents.
The disciples of Thales and Pythagoras grant that all bodies are passible and divisible into infinity.
Essays and MiscellaniesPlutarch
passible
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Word Origin for passible
C14: from Medieval Latin passibilis, from Latin patī to suffer; see passion
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