Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Impossible
impossible, adj. [Fr. < L.] (webplay: God, men, possible, should).
- Unfeasible; impracticable; not accessible; not able to be done.
- Unbearable; not endurable; [fig.] too heavy to lift.
- Phrase. “Impossible to feign”: unfeasible to produce; a person cannot feign; one cannot pretend to have; a mortal being cannot simulate.
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