5. Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state
to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which
are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor;
men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce
many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into
belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes;
she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all
persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.
Compare In.
In*tol`er*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being intolerable;
intolerableness. [R.]
In*tol"er*a*ble (?), a. [F. intolérable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not,
and Tolerable.]
1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or
right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as,
intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.
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His insolence is more intolerable Than all the princes in the land
beside.
Shak.