impacable

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Not even the most impacable of idea transition-mechanics - the old people who believe them dying - can explain this shift.

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  1. Not to be appeased or quieted; unappeasable. So happie are they, and so fortunate, Whom the Pierian sacred sisters love, That, freed from bands of impacable fate And power of death, they live for aye above. Spenser, Ruines of Time, l. 395.

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  • Not even the most impacable of idea transition-mechanics - the old people who believe them dying - can explain this shift. —  Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Blog
  • And interchanged life unto them lent, That, when th'one diës, th'other then beginnes To shew in heaven his brightnes orient; And they, for pittie of the sad wayment 390 Which Orpheus for Eurydice did make, Her back againe to life sent for his sake Wayment_, lament So happie are they, and so fortunate, Whom the Pierian sacred sisters love, That freed from bands of impacable** fate 395 And power of death, they live for aye above, Where mortall wreakes their blis may not remove: But with the gods, for former verities meede, On nectar and ambrosia do feede Impacable_, unappeasable For deeds doe die, how ever noblie donne 400 And thoughts of men do as themselves decay; But wise wordes taught in numbers for to runne, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay; Ne may with storming showers be washt away, Ne bitter-breathing windes with harmfull blast 405 Nor age, nor envie, shall them ever wast In vaine doo earthly princes then, in vaine, Seeke with pyramides to heaven aspired, Or huge colosses built with costlie paine, Or brasen pillours never to be fired 410 Or shrines made of the mettall most desired, To make their memories for ever live: For how can mortall immortalitie give Such one Mausolus made, the worlds great wonder, But now no remnant doth thereof remaine 415 Such one Marcellus, but was torne with thunder: Such one Lisippus, but is worne with raine: Such one King Edmond, but was rent for gaine. —  The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5
 

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  1. from Latin in- privative + Middle Latin pacabilis, payable, literally to be appeased, from Latin pacare, appease, pacify, from pax (pac-), peace: see pay, peace.
 

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