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forcible, a.|ˈfɔəsɪb(ə)l|
Also 6–8 forceable, 8 forciable.
[a. OF. forcible, f. force force n. The form forceable is as if f. force + -able.]
1. Done by force; involving the use of force or violence: esp. in Law, forcible detainer, forcible entry (see quot. 1769).
α [1391Act 15 Rich. II, c. 2 A toutz les foitz que tielx forcibles entrees soient faitz.] c1422Hoccleve Learn to die, Joys Heaven, For the kyngdam of heuene souffrith forcible and mighty assautes of vertu. 1527Rastell Abridgm. Stat. 96 Them that make forcyble entre in beneficis. 1555Eden Decades 273 They prouided for th[e] indempnitie of theyr owne estate by forcible extenuatinge the gooddes..of them whom they desired to kepe in subiection. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxi. 113 That Liberty of Forcible Entry, was taken away by a Statute made in Parliament. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 793 In embraces forcible and foule. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. 390 The stealing, or forcible abduction, of such property as this, is also felony. 1769Ibid. IV. xi. 147 A forcible entry or detainer; which is committed by violently taking or keeping possession, with menaces, force, and arms, of lands and tenements, without the authority of law. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) p. xlvi, A forcible dissolution of it [the Chamber] was intended. 1837Adolphus & Ellis in Rep. K. Bench Div. III. 817 A conviction of forcible detainer dated September 3d, 1834. 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India II. 316 To compel, by forcible means..submission to the authority which was to be substituted. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. vii. 152 He determined..on a forcible return to his country.
β1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke v. 19 The shame of forceable breakyng into this or that mannes house. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 50 Which is a forceable drawing away. 1688Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 236 Praying relief against a forceable Entry and Deteiner.
2. Possessing force.
†a. Of persons, material things, natural agencies, etc.: Strong, powerful.
α1555Eden Decades 311 Dryuen by forcyble wynde to an vnknowen lande. 1555Abp. Parker Ps. cx. 5 Most forcible, He shall great kyngs and Cesars wound, In day of wrath. 1578Banister Hist. Man iii. 42 In the inside of the wrest, is a forcible Ligament. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. vi. §11 He prepared a forcible armie to attend him. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 29 Those subtil, invisible and forcible Engins which we call the Animal Spirits. 1700Prior Carmen Sec. 419 Like mingled Streams, more forcible when join'd. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) III. 70 Indeed, so thick and so forcible was the shoal, as to carry before it every other kind of fish.
β1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 158 Strong forceable defences, whereby it may be safe against outward violence. a1618Raleigh Prerog. Parl. (1628) 19 The forceable Lords his enemies. 1634–5Brereton Trav. (Chetham Soc.) 54 The wind..was so forceable as it repelled the waters.
†b. followed by to with inf. Obs.
α1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. x. §3 That punishment, which hath bene sometimes forcible to bridle sinne. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 167 Cosmus, a kind of charmed-sower-mares milke verie forcible to turne the braine. 1658Whole Duty Man x. §8. 80 There being generally nothing more forcible to bring men into any sinful practice, than the seeing it used by others.
β1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 34 Which reasons of his, are verie forceable to make him yeald to the foresaide matter in question. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts. & Mon. iii. 222 Nothing is more forceable to convince all forrainers. 1710T. Fuller Pharm. Extemp. 349 These [pills] are forceable to bring the necessary Pains in Child-Birth.
c. Of actions, words, representations: Producing a powerful effect, telling. Of reasoning: Having logical force, strong, convincing.
α1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 47 So forcible an antecedent it was most likeli there would follow as effectual a consequent. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 527 But that argument of all others is most forcible. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 39 We may observe somewhat very forcible and expressive in these words. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 105 Reasons, at least as forcible as those which [etc.]. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. vi, With the natural need of a strong rough man in anger, to do something forcible. 1874L. Stephen Hours in Library (1892) I. i. 13 One man sees everything in the forcible light and shade of Rembrandt. 1884Church Bacon ix. 223 His Latin..is singularly forcible and expressive.
β1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 483 Against which assertion, that which is saide 10. H. 3...is not greatly forceable. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus ii. 14 Another forceable argument. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 54 In Beasts the Instinct is invincibly forceable.
d. Hence of an author, painter, etc.
1787G. Gregory tr. Lowth's Sacred Poetry Hebrews II. xxi, He is at once elegant and sublime, forcible and ornamented. 1791Burke Let. Langrishe Wks. 1842 I. 560, I might have been more forcible and more clear, if I had not been interrupted as I have been. 1828D'Israeli Chas I, II. xi. 286 The most forcible of portrait-painters.
†3. Necessary, unavoidable, indispensable. Obs.
1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 116 Our forcible businesse being ended. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 70 Their forceable and necessarie perils.
†4. ‘Valid, binding, obligatory’ (J.). Obs.
1584Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 149 The Lawe was enacted, and stoode forceable.
5. quasi-adv. = forcibly.
α1582N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. iii. 8 b, Sea Woulfes..so wilde and fierce, that they do forcible set vpon men. 1601Holland Pliny II. 621 Neither doth it strike or pierce the sight so forcible as the Rubies do. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. xi, The wind blew more forcible.
β1598J. Manwood Lawes Forest i. §3 (1615) 23/2 Y⊇ more forceable to shew y⊇ same, there is used this word.
Hence ˈforcibleness.
1563Fulke Meteors 24 Either for the smal quantitie & lesse forcibles [? a misprint; or perh. for *forciblesse]. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 67 Bewrayed, by that same forciblenes..of the writer. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. vi. 229 The forcibleness of its operation upon the heart of the prophet. 1890Talmage From Manger to Throne 244 Mark's greater forcibleness of statement. |