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 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. Review.