†1. An impossibility. Obs.
"It seems impossible..that God should relinquish his claim to their profoundest homage. This would be to deny himself; which the apostle reckons among the Adynata."
2. Rhetoric. A figure of speech by which an impossible (or highly unlikely) situation is used for emphasis; an instance of this.
"Portents..are of course common form in tragedy, and the figure known as adynaton (i.e., ‘sooner shall rivers run from the sea than I forsake thee’, etc.) is common form in rhetoric."
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