Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
intenable , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Incapable of holding or containing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Incapable of
holding orcontaining .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
in- not + Latin teneo to hold: compare Latin intenibilis not to be grasped. Compare intenable, untenable.
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Examples
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It is true that this sense of _captious_ may not have an exact parallel; but the intention of Shakspeare is very evident: _captious_ means, as Malone says, capable of _taking_ or _receiving_; and _intenible_
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I. iii.208 (31,9) [captious and intenible sieve] The word _captious_ I never found in this sense; yet I cannot tell what to substitute, unless _carious, _ for _rotten_, which yet is a word more likely to have been mistaken by the copyers than used by the author.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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