| 释义 |
† unappreˈhensible, a. Obs.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
1. That cannot be apprehended.
1613Sir W. Alexander in Sidney Arcadia (1622) 333 O how the soule, apt for all impressions transcending reason, can comprehend unapprehensible things! a1715South Serm. (1744) VII. 94 Which assertions..leave it unapprehensible what place can reasonably be left for addressing exhortations to the will. a1761Law Behmen's Myst. Magnum xx. (1772) 85 It stood hidden in God, and was unapprehensible.
2. Incapable of apprehending.
1613Heywood Bras. Age ii. ii, How harshly doth your wisedome sound in th'eares Of these Barbarians, dull, vnapprehensible. |