Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being passible; the capacity of receiving impressions from external agents; aptness to feel or suffer.
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- noun The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility.
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- noun The quality or state of being
passible ; aptness to feel or suffer;sensibility .
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Examples
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There must be so much, or such kind of passibility in him that he will feel toward every thing as it is, and will be diversely affected by diverse things, according to their quality.
Sermons for the New Life. 1802-1876 1876
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On the first point: although Christ was a comprehensor, and therefore blessed in the enjoyment of God, he was nevertheless a wayfarer in respect of the passibility of nature, while subject to nature.
Nature and Grace: Selections from the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas 1954
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Consequently, as Christ first had grace in His soul with bodily passibility, and through the Passion attained to the glory of immortality, so we likewise, who are His members, are freed by His
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Thirdly, in order to show us an example of patience by valiantly bearing up against human passibility and defects.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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He was, however, a wayfarer on account of the passibility of His body, in respect of which He was
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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For the _fomes_ of sin, and the passibility and mortality of the body spring from the same principle, to wit, from the withdrawal of original justice, whereby the inferior powers of the soul were subject to the reason, and the body to the soul.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Now passibility and mortality of body were in Christ.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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And hence perfection of virtue, which is in accordance with right reason, does not exclude passibility of body; yet it excludes the _fomes_ of sin, the nature of which consists in the resistance of the sensitive appetite to reason.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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Reply Obj. 1: All particular defects of men are caused by the corruptibility and passibility of the body, some particular causes being added; and hence, since Christ healed the passibility and corruptibility of our body by assuming it, He consequently healed all other defects.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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And, consequently, we must not say simply that He partook of the effect of His priesthood but with this qualification -- in regard to the passibility of the flesh.
Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition Aquinas Thomas
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