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unˈsearchable, a. and n.
[un-1 7 b, 12, and 5 b.]
1. That cannot be searched into, so as to be ascertained or exactly estimated; inscrutable.
1382Wyclif Rom. xi. 33 Hou incomprehensyble ben his domes, and his weyis vnserchable. c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's 43 God, that makith grete and vnsercheable thyngis with-owte numbre. 1549Latimer 3rd Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 100 Mans hart is vnserchable. 1584B. R. tr. Herodotus ii. 77 They fell..to discourse..of Nilus, the head whereof was vnsearchable, and not to be knowne. 1622Peacham Compl. Gent. viii. 69 To consider how Nature.., by an vnsearchable and stupendious worke, sheweth vs [etc.]. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 10 To relate Things else by me unsearchable, now heard With wonder. 1703Rowe Ulysses iv. i, 'Tis all the mighty working of the gods, Unsearchable and dark to human Eyes. 1759Johnson Rasselas xi, The unsearchable will of the Supreme Being. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. iii. 112 Lost in unsearchable eternity. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 193 As his might is irresistible, so is his wisdom unsearchable. 1876R. Bridges Sonn. viii, The unsearchable and secret aims Of nature.
b. n. An unsearchable thing.
1725Watts Logick i. vi. §1 It is a vast Hindrance..if we spend too much of our Time and Pains among Infinites and Unsearchables. 1741― Improv. Mind i. xviii, To busy yourselves..amongst unsearchables.
2. That cannot be sought for.
1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukalion iii. v. 128 A something lost, Because vnsought, perchance unsearchable, Assails my sight.
Hence unˈsearchableness, -ably adv.
1611Florio, Inscrutabilita, *vnsearchableness. a1653Binning Serm. (1845) 38 God's unsearchableness, God's unchangeableness. 1683Burnet tr. More's Utopia 197 Unless, according to the unsearchableness of his Mind, he is pleased with a variety of Religions. 1856Ruskin Mod. Paint. IV. v. v. §21 In an Italian twilight..there is still unsearchableness, but an unsearchableness without cloud or concealment. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets ix. 290 The unsearchableness of God's dealings.
1706Stevens Span. Dict. i, Inscrutablemente, inscrutably, *unsearchably. 1746Hervey Refl. Flower Garden 21 The various Expedients which Providence, unsearchably wise, uses. 1847De Quincey Sp. Mil. Nun Wks. 1862 III. 98 A female..who..perished by a fate so unsearchably mysterious. |