A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1420-1490
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Impossibilite(e, n. Also: impossybylyté, inpossibiliti. [ME. (1387–8) and OF. impossibilité, L. impossibilitas.] a. Inability, incapacity. b. Impossibility. —a. c1420 Wynt. vii. Prol. 31.
At thare instans, that me kend Thaire awyne impossybylyte 1490 Irland Mir. I. 158/10.
[Christ's] inpossibiliti to syneb. 1456 Hay I. 145/13.
The payment cessis with the impossibilitee of the seruice 1456 Ib. 193/25.
Thus is he excusit be resoun of impossibilitee
