a. [UN-1 7.] † a. = IMPASSIVE a. 1. Obs. b. Active.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XIII. lxxix. 326. Sufficeth vs to know he is … vnpassiue, vnmateriall, vncompounded, Infinite.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 568. The principal of those [habits] are faith, and hope, and charity,… unpassive compliance, readiness to please, and easiness to be pleased.
