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Definition of Impressible

1. Adjective. Easily impressed or influenced. "A waxy mind"

Definition of Impressible

1. a. Capable of being impressed; susceptible; sensitive.

Definition of Impressible

1. Adjective. Capable of being impressed; susceptible of receiving impression. ¹

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Definition of Impressible

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Impressible

Literary usage of Impressible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"The quality of being capable of a certain and stable form. The differences of impressible and not impres- ..."

2. Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Instruction by American Institute of Instruction, Meeting (1839)
"Children are flexible, impressible and imitative. ... As an impressible being, habits and qualities are given to the pupil's mind, by contact with that of ..."

3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by George Woodyatt Hastings, Andrew Edgar, Charles Wager Ryalls, Edwin Pears (1866)
"... and impressible minds of the young." On the Consolidation of the Reformatory and Industrial Schools' Acts. By MARY ..."

4. Antonina: Or, The Fall of Rome by Wilkie Collins (1874)
"His heart was still the impressible heart of youth; and, struck for the first time in his life with emotions of horror and remorse, he advanced a step to ..."

5. University Addresses by William Watts Folwell (1909)
"The Christian academy can do that work which most of all the Church wants done, the work of training the growing and impressible youth. ..."

6. Sonnenschein's Cyclopædia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All by Alfred Ewen Fletcher (1889)
"... of the visitors have not received that training which is required to make them impressible, receptive or retentive of the truths which they survey. ..."

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