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impressible, a.|ɪmˈprɛsɪb(ə)l|
[f. impress v.1 (or L. impress- ppl. stem) + -ible.]
Capable of being impressed: a. Sensitive to impressions; susceptible, impressionable; b. That can be impressed on something.
1626Bacon Sylva §846 The Differences of Impressible and Not Impressible, Figurable and Not Figurable,..are Plebeian Notions. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus 1. (1726) 18 An heightened and obstinate Fancy hath a great Influence upon impressible Spirits. 1780Cowper Progr. Err. 355 The mind impressible and soft with ease Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. II. App. xi. 405 The instruments became very impressible to artificial elevation of temperature. 1874Motley Barneveld II. xxii. 404 Impressible, emotional, and susceptive, he had been accused of infirmity of purpose.
Hence imˈpressibleness, impressibility; imˈpressibly adv., in an impressible manner. (In recent Dicts.) |