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intolerable, a. (adv.)|ɪnˈtɒlərəb(ə)l|
Also 5–8 intoll-.
[ad. L. intolerābilis that cannot bear, that cannot be borne, f. in- (in-3) + tolerābilis tolerable: cf. F. intolérable (13th c. in Littré).]
1. That cannot be tolerated, borne, or put up with; unendurable, unbearable, insupportable, insufferable.
a. physically.
1435Misyn Fire of Love 89 Þa sall criste scharp & intollerabyll to þer eyne for þam þer hartis in þis lyfe felt hym neuer sweet. 1483Caxton Cato I v, Payne and tormente eternalle intollerabile and wythoute ende. 1564Golding Justine 65 (R.) He was tormented with so intollerable paine, that he desired to haue a sworde to ridde him selfe out of it wythall. 1607E. Grimstone tr. Goulart's Mem. Hist. 336 [They] committed the innocent Sonne to prison, where the intollerable torment of the torture made him confesse that [etc.]. 1756Burke Subl. & B. ii. xxi, No smells or tastes can produce a grand sensation, except excessive bitters, and intolerable stenches. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 483 Patients chiefly suffer from the intolerable itching. 1861Alford in Life (1873) 311 The glorious Coliseum itself, basking in a cloudless, intolerable sun.
b. mentally or morally.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. ccxxxv. 272 For y⊇ intollerable dedis of y⊇ Iewes. 1513More in Grafton Chron. (1568) II. 792 The king..was..every where over all the realme intollerable. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, i. i. 175 Yet let vs watch the haughtie Cardinall, His insolence is more intollerable Then all the Princes in the Land beside. 1692South 12 Serm. (1697) I. 231 A blind man sitting in the Chimney corner is pardonable enough, but sitting at the Helm he is Intolerable. 1759Robertson Hist. Scot. iv. Wks. 1813 I. 269 To a woman, and a queen, such behaviour was intolerable. 1796Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 366 The intolerable licence with which the newspapers break..the rules of decorum. 1883Froude Short Stud. IV. i. iii. 31 The conduct of the lower class of clergy was..growing daily more intolerable.
†c. In loose sense, as a strong intensive: Excessive, extreme, exceedingly great. (Cf. awful.)
1544Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 12 His maiestie..hath taken intollerable paines, travaile studye and laboure, in his owne moste royall persone. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 592 O monstrous, but one halfe penny-worth of Bread to this intollerable deale of Sacke? 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 378 Their Ganga, who now gave out intolerable brags. 1725Wodrow Corr. (1843) III. 224 In our Highlands and Islands the parishes are extremely large, some twenty, thirty, some more, miles in length... Ministers..are..able to do little in such spacious and intolerable parishes.
2. That cannot be withstood, irresistible. rare.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 91 Thei scholde be intollerable and invincible, if they myȝhte haue the vertu of perseueraunce after theire impetuosite. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iv. iii. §i. (1634) 487 Their force was intolerable, but for want of good guidance, ineffectual. 1878Harper's Mag. Feb. 439 To..scourge away the remnant of Hassan's men with intolerable musketry.
†B. as adv. Intolerably, insufferably; also, as a strong intensive, Exceedingly, extremely. Obs.
1592Chettle Kinde-hart's Dr. (1841) 23 This, taken at a draught before the fit, is intollerable good. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 89 Her onely fault..Is, that she is intollerable curst. 1645Bp. Hall Remedy Discontents 29 How intolerable tedious would it prove in the fruition? 1716C'tess Cowper Diary (1864) 100 Dr. Dunster preached an intolerable dull Sermon. |