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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Forcible-feeble \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. [1913 Webster] 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. Review. [1913 Webster]