impacable
English
Etymology
From Latin im- (“not”) + pacare (“to quiet”). See pacate.
Adjective
impacable (comparative more impacable, superlative most impacable)
- (obsolete) implacable (unable to be appeased)
- Synonym: unpacable
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- But those two other, which beside them stoode,
Were Britomart and gentle Scudamour;
Who all the while beheld their wrathfull moode,
And wondred at their impacable stoure,
Whose like they never saw till that same houre
Related terms
- impacability
- impacably
References
- “impacable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.