Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Difficult or impossible to coerce or control forcibly: incoercible rebel leaders.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not to be coerced or compelled; incapable of being constrained or forced.
- In physics, incapable of being reduced to a liquid form by any amount of pressure. Certain gases were formerly supposed to have this property. See gas.
- In physical:
- Incapable of reduction to tangible condition by pressure: applied to forms of energy, such as heat and electricity, when they were thought of as extremely subtile fluids.
Wiktionary
- adj. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
- adj. physics, of a gas Not capable of being reduced to liquid form by pressure.
- adj. physics, archaic That cannot be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; said of heat, light, electricity, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Not to be coerced; incapable of being compelled or forced.
- adj. (Physics) Not capable of being reduced to the form of liquid by pressure; -- said of any gas above its critical temperature.
- adj. (Physics) That can note be confined in, or excluded from, vessels, like ordinary fluids, gases, etc.; -- said of the imponderable fluids, heat, light, electricity, etc.
Etymologies
- in- + coercible (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Pacific Ocean shall pour into the Atlantic; when man will become more precious than fine gold, and when his ambition will be to subdue the elements, not to subjugate his fellow-creatures, to make fire, water, earth and air obey his bidding, but to leave the poor ethereal mind as the sole thing in Nature free and incoercible.”
“How, then, is it possible to affirm the reality of an invisible, impalpable, incoercible being, ever changing, ever vanishing, impenetrable to thought alone, to which it exhibits only its disguises?”
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
“Liberty of thought and action, and incoercible desire to be free from governmental, traditional, ultra-ecclesiastical, or Shint [= o] influence -- in a word, protestantism in its pure sense, is characteristic of the great sect founded by”
The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji
“The incoercible shadows, with soft feet, with a burlesque mask, blow long flutes of ebony or silver.”
“We are that incoercible force that wants to do what I have repeated so many times and I say it you again today, to do what Cervantes express in his Don Quixote: change the giants into windmills, and not the windmills into giants.”
Lists
‘incoercible’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for incoercible.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.