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incessable, a. Now rare or Obs.|ɪnˈsɛsəb(ə)l| Also 6 -ceissabill, 7 -ceassable, erron. -ceasible. [ad. L. incessābil-is, f. in- (in-3) + *cessābilis, f. cessāre to cease: cf. F. incessable (15th c. in Godef.). In 16–17th c. sometimes assimilated to cease.] Of unceasing character; ceaseless, incessant.
1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde iv. vi. (1634) 198 Incessable sweating. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus iv. 492, I sall vphald his seruice Inceissabill. 1624Heywood Gunaik. ix. 443 His liver and heart is perpetually tyred on by a ravenous vulture, who still renewes his inceasible torments. 1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. v. 168 The life of man is the Incessable walk of time. |