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infrangible, a.|ɪnˈfrændʒɪb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + frangible; cf. OF. infrangible (15th c.).]
1. That cannot be broken; unbreakable.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 14 b/1 Shee [a needle] ought to be stiffe, smooth and infrangible. 1603Holland Plutarch 807 He that nameth an Atome, saith as much, as infrangible, impassible, and without vacuitie. 1715–20Pope Iliad xiii. 57 And link'd their fetlocks with a golden band, Infrangible, immortal. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. v. 70 No iron bar is absolutely infrangible.
fig.1686H. More Real Presence 39 The solid, steady, and infrangible Wisdom of God. 1837Howitt Rur. Life ii. vi. (1862) 160 An enchanted forest, bearing the spell of an infrangible silence.
2. That cannot be infringed; inviolable.
1834Sir W. Hamilton Discuss. (1852) 376 Firm and infrangible compacts, which sometimes last for generations.
Hence infrangiˈbility, inˈfrangibleness, the quality of being infrangible; inˈfrangibly adv., in an infrangible manner, so as to be unbreakable.
1727Bailey vol. II, Infrangibleness, uncapableness of being broken. 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 118 The band which bound them all infrangibly together. 1899Month Aug. 146 The infrangibility of the seal of confession. |