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An impassable road or way; a blind alley; cul-de-sac; fig., a position or predicament affording no escape.

The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

Incapable of suffering; inaccessible to harm or pain; not to be touched or moved to passion or sympathy; unfeeling, or not showing feeling; without sensation. "Impassible to the critic." Sir W. Scott. Secure of death, I should contemn thy dart Though naked, and impassible depart. Dryden.

Impassibility.

To move or affect strongly with passion. [Archaic] Chapman.

Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

To affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of. Dr. H. More.

Actuated or characterized by passion or zeal; showing warmth of feeling; ardent; animated; excited; as, an impassioned orator or discourse.

Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.

The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.

See Encompass.

Want of compassion or pity. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]

To exceed the compass or limits of. Bacon.

To pass beyond; to exceed in progress.

To exceed in passion.

To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

Passionate to excess. -- O"ver*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv.

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent preëxistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian. -- Pa`tri*pas"sian*ism, n.