Impossible

*A l’impossible nul n’est tenu = There is no doing impossibilities; No living man all things can.

Index

Les grévistes mirent cette boutique à l’index = The strikers boycotted that shop.

[The Index Expurgatorius is a list of books compiled for the Pope which Roman Catholics are forbidden to read.]

Injure

Ils se sont dit mille injures = They abused one another like pickpockets.

Vous lui faites injure = You wrong him.

Inscrire

Je m’inscris en faux contre cette assertion = I emphatically deny the truth of that assertion.