Meanings
adjectiveintenible (comparative more intenible, superlative most intenible)
comparative more intenible · superlative most intenible
- obsoleteIncapable of holding or containing.
this captious and intenible sieve
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]
Origin
From in- (“not”) + Latin teneō (“to hold”). Compare Latin intenibilis (“not to be grasped”). Compare intenable, untenable.
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