Seventeenth-Century Dictionary Entries Related to Impassibility

To Affect

• To desire earnestly, or to minde
• To move affection
• To set one’s mind upon
• To work upon one

Affected

• Disposed, inclined
• Taken up

Affection

• Love, benevolence, good will, kindness, inclination, passion
• Natural motion of the mind
• Delight to a thing
• Passions which affect the minde with some grief or pain, especially when they are strong and vehement

Impassible

• Incapable of suffering
• Not moved with passion or affection
• Not moved with any affection

Passibility

• Suffering, or ableness to suffer
• Aptness to suffer
• Ableness to suffer
• An aptness, or ableness to suffer

Passible

• Able to suffer

Passion

• Affection, strong desire or inclination, fondness
• Suffering, griefe
• A suffering; an affection of the mind
• Perturbation
• Suffering, also an affection of the mind
• A passion of the mind (passio, perturbatio, affectus)
• Suffering; also an affection of the mind
• A suffering, or any thing that is painful and grievous unto us.
• Every motion of the minde being out of his due course, and every sinful affection; which are called passions, because they pierce the minde, and make it suffer grief

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