ineffectible

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

in- +‎ effectible

Adjective[edit]

ineffectible (comparative more ineffectible, superlative most ineffectible)

  1. ineffectual; impracticable
    • a. 1656, Joseph Hall, The Soul's Farewell to Earth:
      There he , in an ineffectible manner , communicates himself to blessed spirits , both angels and men ; and that very vision is no less to them than beatifical.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ineffectible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)