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单词 forcible feeble
释义

forcible feeblen.

Etymology: after Shakespeare: see quot. 1600.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈforcible ˈfeeble.
A feeble person who makes great pretence of vigour; also used attributively or as adj.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 165 Shal. Francis Feeble. Feeble Here sir... Fal. I cannot put him to a priuate souldier, that is the leader of so many thousands, let that suffice most forcible Feeble.]
1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. i. v. 63 Italics, that last resource of the Forcible Feebles.
1850 N. Brit. Rev. 13 2 Epithets..in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school.
1896 Daily News 15 June 6/6 The forcible Feebles who control the destinies..of the Party.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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