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† inˈfringible, a. Obs.
Also -eable.
[var. of infrangible with vowel conformed to L. infringĕre. Cf. obs. F. infringible (Rabelais, 16th c.).]
1. That cannot be infringed or broken; unbreakable, inviolable, indissoluble.
1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 36 b, The Frenche nacion not remembryng this infringible law, deposed..the very heyre male..and set up in trone this Pepyn. Ibid., Edw. IV 242 b, In hope of continual peace, and infringible amitie. 1605Breton Olde Man's Lesson (1879) 13 Hauing betwixt themselues sealed with their hands the infringible band of Faith and Troth in the heart..hee tooke leaue of his faire lady. 1642G. Eglisham Forerunner Revenge 6 Your Majesty's most royall word, which should be inviolable, your hand and seale which should be infringeable.
b. Rarely of things material: Unbreakable.
1600R. Cawdray Treas. Similies 305 To trap within the infringible net of his indignation.
2. Irrefragable, irrefutable.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 266 And first of all commeth to hand an infringible Argument of Osorius. 1629Symmer Spir. Posie i. i. 6 The equity of the dependencie of the latter upon the former, is infringible. |