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† unˈexplicable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
1. = inexplicable a. 2.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 542/1 Which places of themselfe all olde holy doctours confesse for diffuse and almost unexplicable. 1644Digby Nat. Soul Pref. ⁋5 Later Philosophers..haue filled their bookes..with vnexplicable opinions, out of which no account of nature can be given. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxvii. 100 Justice being oppressed by the unexplicable ambition of potent men. 1803Ann. Rev. I. 275 What remains unexplicable in the conduct of public men is not solved by conjecture. 1815Monthly Mag. XXXVIII. 111 Many hundred words obsolete, unexplicable, barbarous,..will be dislodged.
2. = inexplicable a. 1.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 225 Him Minos doomes To durance, in vnexplicable roomes. a1624R. Crakanthorp Vigilans Dormitans xix. (1631) 313 By most admirable and unexplicable fraud & subtilty. 1675Evelyn Terra (1676) 61 Mould to entertain the Fibers, which else you will find to mat in unexplicable intanglements.
Hence † unˈexplicableness. Obs.
1712H. More's App. Antid. Ath. 185 The unexplicableness of a Spirit's moving Maker is no greater argument [etc.]. |