immarcescible, a. Now rare.
(ɪmɑːˈsɛsɪb(ə)l)
Also erron. 6–9 -cessible, (7 -able).
[ad. late L. immarcēscibilis, f. im- (im-2) + marcēscĕre, marcēre to fade, wither.]
Unfading; incorruptible, imperishable; esp. in immarcescible crown (of glory).
(Immarcescibilis corona ‘unfading garland’ occurs in Paulinus Nolanus (a 431 a.d.) Carm. 15. The Vulgate has hereditas immarcescibilis, 1 Pet. i. 4; corona incorrupta, 1 Cor. ix. 24.)
| 1542 Becon Pathw. Prayer xlviii. R vj, The immarcessible [ed. 1543 vncorruptible] crowne of glory. 1548–9 (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Form consecr. Bishops, Ye may receyue the immarcessible [1662 never-fading] croune of glory. 1640 Howell Dodona's Gr. (1645) 168 Palms of Victory and immarcessible ghirlands of glory and triumph to all eternity. 1654 Vilvain Theorem. Theol. Suppl. 238 Man was made immortal or immarcescible, and fel from it by sin. 1708 Addr. fr. Jersey in Lond. Gaz. No. 4453/1 May he reward your Piety..with an immarcessible Crown of Glory. 1858 E. Caswall Masque Mary 54 Children of Mary's care, and like herself of bloom and fragrance immarcessible. |
Hence immarˈcescibly adv., unfadingly; immarˈcescibleness, imperishableness.
| 1652 Bp. Hall Invis. World iii. xii, A crown..immarcessibly eternal, a crown of righteousness. 1727 Bailey vol. II, Immarcessibleness, never fading Nature. |