passible (pasibl)

[ suffer, feel: see pa ion, patient. ] feeling or suffering; susceptible of impre ions from external agents. pa ing And as he [God] is the Head of that body, he is pa ible , so he may suffer; and, as he is the first-born of the dead, he did suffer; so that he was defective in nothing; not in power, as God, not in pa ibility, as man. Donne , Sermons, i. pa iblene (pas'i-bl-nes), n. Pa ibility. IMG:content-2427.png:[graphic] .. This heresy of Eutyches and Dioscorus drew after it the heresy of the pa iblene e of the Deity, because the Deity of Christ was become, in their conceits, the same nature with the humanity that was pa ible. E. Brere wood , Diversity of Languages and Religions [(ed. 1635), xxv. Pa iflora (pas-i-flō'rä), n. [NL. (Linnæus, 1737), irreg. pa io , pa ion, + flos ( flor- ) , flower. Early mi ionaries to South America, and Spanish writers from 1593, regarded the flower as an emblem of the crucifixion, finding in the five anthers the five wounds, in the three button-like stigmas the three nails, in the corona the crown of thorns, in the five petals and five sepals the ten apostles then present, in the digitate leaves the persecutors' hands, and in the tendrils their scourges.) A genus of climbing herbs or shrubs, type of the order Pas sifloraceæ and the tribe Pa if loreæ , characterized by the short calyx-tube, three styles, and the calyx-lobes, petals, and stamens each four or five; the pa ion-flowers. There are about 175 species, mainly American; a few are Asiatic and Australian. They bear lateral unbranched tendrils, and alternate leaves, undivided or lobed, often with a gland-bearing petiole. Their large and showy flowers are solitary or racemed in the axils, followed by dry or pulpy many-seeded berries, which in some species are edible. (See granadilla , curuba , may-pop, indigo - berry , 2, water - lemon , and sweet calabash (under calabash ), also cut under cirrus .) Some species are narcotic or expectorant, as P. fœtid a , the West Indian love-in-a-mist, and the bitter leaves of P. laurifolia , the Jamaican honeysuckle, are used as an astringent. P. macrocarpa , the pumpkin pa ion-flower of Brazil and Peru, produces a fruit sometimes weighing 8 pounds. Many species are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers, as P. cærule a , P. kermes in a , etc. See also bullhoof and Dutchman's - laudanum .