adjective #1666

incrēdĭbĭlis

neut. incrēdĭbĭle

2. in-credo.

Pass.

Pass.

That cannot be believed; incredible; extraordinary •••

That cannot be believed, incredible, extraordinary, unparalleled (class.): fides, Cic. Fam. 13, 54: quaedam et prope singularis et divina vis ingenii, id. Or. 1, 38, 172: voluptas, id. Cat. 1, 10: foedus sceleris, id. ib. 2, 4: furor, id. Sull. 27: rem facere incredibilem, id. Inv. 2, 13, 42: incredibilia probabilibus intexere, id. Part. 4, 12: incredibile est, it is incredible, id. Att. 13, 23, 3: praeter spem atque incredibile hoc mihi obtigit, unforeseen, Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 9: incredibile est, quanta me molestia affecerit, Cic. Att. 15, 1, 1; so Quint. 1, 1, 32. —With inf.: incredibile est, a filio patrem occisum, Quint. 7, 2, 31: incredibilem in modum concursus fiunt, Cic. Att. 5, 16, 3: incredibile quantum coaluere, Just. 36, 2 fin.—With sup. in u (not in Cic.): incredibile memoratu est, quam facile coaluerint, Sall. C. 6, 2.—

Not worthy of belief; that is not believed

Not worthy of belief, or that is not believed (ante-class.), Plaut. Bacch. 4, 3, 3. —

unbelieving; incredibly; extraordinarily ••

Act., unbelieving, incredulous (post-class.): incredibiles cogentur credere, App. Trim. p. 93, 25.— Hence, adv.: incrēdĭbĭlĭter, incredibly, extraordinarily (class.): quibus ego incredibiliter delector, Cic. de Sen. 15, 51: consentire, id. Phil. 1, 15, 36: pertimuit, id. Att. 8, 7, 1.

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