\For"ci*ble-fee`ble\, a. [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.
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