passible

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Dorian's busy season also began As soon as the roads were passible, Dorian drove up to his dry-farm.

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  1. adjective Capable of feeling or suffering; sensitive: a passible type of personality.

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  • I agree that it was irresponsible to have school, and not because I would have gotten another day off, but because some roads still weren't even passible and they were definitely still dangerous for inexperienced drivers. —  Homepage | The Forum | Fargo, ND
  • Loss of food, at least one day of vacation, passible water damage on hardwood floors, personal time replacing the product and food.
  • 9], "Nothing that saves man is derogatory to God; showing Him to be not passible, but merciful": and in another discourse of the same Council [*P. iii, cap. —  Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • So we cannot thence conclude that man's body was passible, but that the food taken was passible; although this kind of passion conduced to the perfection of the nature Reply Obj. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
  • Dorian's busy season also began As soon as the roads were passible, Dorian drove up to his dry-farm. —  Dorian
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin passibilis, from Latin passus, past participle of patī, to suffer; see pē(i)- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Frenchpassible =Spanish pasible =Portuguese passivel =Italian passibile, from Late Latin passibilis, capable of feeling, from Latinpati, past participle passus, suffer, feel: see passion, patient.
 

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