impacable

English

Etymology

From Latin im- (“not”) + pacare (“to quiet”). See pacate.

Adjective

impacable (comparative more impacable, superlative most impacable)

  1. (obsolete) Not to be appeased or quieted.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  • impacably

See also

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for impacable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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