Incompossible

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incompossible \In`com*pos"si*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
     compossible: cf. F. incompossible.]
     Not capable of joint existence; incompatible; inconsistent.
     [Obs.]
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           Ambition and faith . . . are . . . incompossible.
                                                    --Jer. Taylor.
     -- {In`com*pos`si*bil"i*ty}, n. [Obs.]
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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  INCOMPOSSIBLE, adj.  Unable to exist if something else exists.  Two
  things are incompossible when the world of being has scope enough for
  one of them, but not enough for both -- as Walt Whitman's poetry and
  God's mercy to man.  Incompossibility, it will be seen, is only
  incompatibility let loose.  Instead of such low language as "Go heel
  yourself -- I mean to kill you on sight," the words, "Sir, we are
  incompossible," would convey and equally significant intimation and in
  stately courtesy are altogether superior.