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Webster 1913 Edition
Forcible-feeble
For′ci-ble-feeˊble
,Adj.
[From
Feeble
, a character in the Second Part of Shakespeare’s “King Henry IV.,” to whom Falstaff derisively applies the epithet “forcible
.”] Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid.
He [Prof. Ayton] would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the
forcible-feeble
school. N. Brit. Review.