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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
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Quotation dates: 1490, 1562-1581
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Passibil, -ible, a.1 (ME. passible capable of feeling or suffering (Rolle), liable to suffer change or decay (Gower), OF. passible, late L. passibilis capable of feeling or suffering.) — 1490 Irland Mir. II. 36/30.
His haly body was passible eftir that the saule partit fra it 1562-3 Winȝet I. 87/8 (see Impassible a.). 1581 Burne Disput. 38 b.
Our maisters body at the suppar vas mortal and passibil
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