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† undiˈscernable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
= undiscernible a. (Common in 17th c.)
1586Hooker Disc. Justif. §23, I doe not meane..that building vndiscernable by mortall eyes,..but I speake of the visible Church. a1633W. Austin Medit. (1635) 139 Let us (then) not will, or strive to ascend to Honour..by secret and undiscernable meanes. 1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 229 If we take but a drop of the sea, it makes some diminution, though it be unsensible, and undiscernable. 1710Tatler No. 205 ⁋5 How undiscernable [is] the Transition from one to the other! 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. IV. xliii. 169 The primordial threads, or first principles of the texture, are utterly undiscernable.
Hence † undiˈscernableness. Obs.
1645Hammond View Infallibility (1646) 141 Your answer to the undiscernablenesse of errours. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 536 Compared with which..the Stateliest Pallaces lessen into undiscernablenesse. |