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  1.  Lacking force or power.

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1597.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxv. § 9. Wee cannot thinke that the signe which our new baptized foreheads did there receiue, is either vnfit or vnforcible.

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1754.  A. Murphy, Gray’s Inn Jrnl., No. 90. Pieces … unforcible in Sentiment, and destitute of Character.

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  2.  Incapable of being forced or enforced.

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1611.  Cotgr., Inforçable, vnforcible, vnexpugnable, impregnable.

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1649.  Milton, Tenure Kings, 39. I wish them … not to compell unforcible things in Religion especially.

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