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uncoˈmmunicable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
1. That cannot or may not be communicated; incommunicable.
1382Wyclif Wisd. xiv. 21 The vncomunycable name to stones and trees thei putten. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 297 The diuine prouidence hath made nothynge vncommunicable. 1587Golding De Mornay vi. (1592) 70 Men were forbidden to vtter the vncommunicable name of God. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. xiii. 269 A perfect and uncommunicable power royall. 1650Cowley Let. 9 July, Wks. (Grosart) II. 348/2 Their hopes of an uncommunicable Victory. 1742Warburton in Pope's Wks. (1788) VI. 135 His having no Delight in any thing uncommunicated or uncommunicable. 1780Burke Sp. at Bristol Wks. 1808 III. 369 The peculiar, reserved, uncommunicable rights of England. 1833Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes, To Landor (1844) 144 The power of uncommunicable Art.
†2. Uncommunicative. Obs.—1
1628Feltham Resolves ii. vii. 16 Neither [master nor servant] can haue comfort, where both are vncommunicable.
Hence uncoˈmmunicably adv.
1817Shelley To Constantia Singing 12 A breathless awe,..Wild, sweet, but uncommunicably strange. |