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unreˈducible, a.
[un-1 7, 5 b.]
Irreducible.
1643Milton Divorce 44 By Laws commanding over the unreducible antipathies of nature. 1736Phil. Trans. XXXIX. 333 This Rupture was..fixed and unreducible. 1768Woman of Honor II. 159 Those have laughed at it in theory on judging it unreducible to practice. 1858H. Bushnell Nat. & Supernat. xii. (1862) 276 There is nothing eccentric that..will not fall into the general aim of the plan..; no fantastic matter that is unreducible. 1861Sir W. Fairbairn Iron 14 An invention..to smelt otherwise useless and unreducible ores.
Hence unreˈducibleness.
1694South Serm. (1698) III. 271 Their Strangeness and Unreducibleness to the common Methods and observations of Nature. |