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impossible

impossible is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.Without faith it is impossible to please him. Heb. xi.
  2. 2.Impossible quantity (Math.), an imagnary quantity. See Imaginary.
  3. 3.An impossibility. [Obs.] "Madam," quoth he, "this were an impossible!" Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Synonyms (Webster's 1913)

  • see impracticable

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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