intenible
English edit
Etymology edit
From in- (“not”) + teneo (“to hold”). Compare Latin intenibilis (“not to be grasped”). Compare intenable, untenable.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
intenible (comparative more intenible, superlative most intenible)
- (obsolete) Incapable of holding or containing.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
- this captious and intenible sieve
References edit
“intenible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.