The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impassible \Im*pas"si*ble\, a. [L. impassibilis; pref. im- not +
passibilis passable: cf. F. impassible. See Passible.]
Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to
be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not
showing feeling; without sensation. ``Impassible to the
critic.''
--Sir W. Scott.
Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart
Though naked, and impassible depart.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chiefly theology English) Unable to suffer, or feel pain. 2 Unable to feel emotion; impassive. 3 Incapable of suffering injury or detriment. 4 (misspelling of impassable English)
Usage examples of "impassible".
For since a heavenly body is impassible and incorruptible, as is proved De Coel.
Passion is to be attributed to the suppositum of the Divine Nature, not because of the Divine Nature, which is impassible, but by reason of the human nature.
Divine Nature by reason of the passible nature assumed, but not on account of the impassible Divine Nature.
Whether Christ Received and Gave to the Disciples His Impassible Body?
Objection 1: It seems that Christ both received and gave to the disciples His impassible body.
Therefore He gave it just as it was after the Passion, that is, impassible and immortal.
And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
The few open areas were nearly impassible with manzanita, a sturdy bush with tangled arms clothed in red bark and shining green leaves.
But the rashness of these concessions has encouraged a milder sentiment of those of the Docetes, who taught, not that Christ was a phantom, but that he was clothed with an impassible and incorruptible body.
With the moderate Docetes, he revered Mary as the spiritual, rather than as the carnal, mother of Christ, whose body either came from heaven, impassible and incorruptible, or was absorbed, and as it were transformed, into the essence of the Deity.
The scouts of Easlon, the easternmost of the Ten Peerdoms, regularly crossed the frontier on trails known only to them, but the Lantians would have considered these hazardous routes impassible.
Mazarin behaved still more rudely to him, but Colbert, still impassible, having obtained a certainty that the letter was the true one, went off as if he had been deaf.
All I learned from the pig-woman is concerned with illusion, small things out of proportion: the handful of water seeming a pool, the twig a great fallen log, the single bramble stem an impassible tangle.
The few open areas were nearly impassible with manzanita, a sturdy bush with tangled arms clothed in red bark and shining green leaves.
A few more weeks and the central Kalahari would be almost impassible for any humans but Bushmen—and even they would be holed up around the few permanent waterholes, traveling as little as possible in the terrible heat—and would stay that way until the late-October rains.