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incommunicable, a.|ɪnkəˈmjuːnɪkəb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + communicable: cf. F. incommunicable (16th c., Calvin Inst.), mod.L. incommūnicābilis.]
1. Not communicable; that cannot be communicated or made common; incapable of being imparted or shared.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 675 Hee..who doth communicate the incommunicable properties of God to creatures. 1608Willet Hexapla in Exod. 40 This name Iehouah is also incommunicable. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 104 Those are called incommunicable attributes, which are proper to God alone, and not communicated to any creature. 1760C. Johnston Chrysal (1822) III. 139 To wrest from the sovereign an essential part of the incommunicable power of the crown. 1814Southey Roderick xviii. 65 None shared or knew His deep and incommunicable joy.
b. absol. or as n.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 32 A Reception of Superabundant Transcendency, Christs peculiar Incommunicable, which..is ultra consortes.
2. That cannot be communicated to another by speech; incapable of being told or uttered; ineffable, unspeakable, unutterable.
1664South Twelve Serm. (1697) II. 79 How freely did Christ unbosom himself to his Disciples?..[not] in the extra⁓ordinary discoveries of the Gospel only, but also of those incommunicable Revelations of the Divine Love, in reference to their own personal interest in it. 1827Pollok Course T. v, Heard unutterable things, And incommunicable visions saw. a1864Ferrier Grk. Philos. (1866) 252 Its true meaning is utterly incommunicable by one being to another.
3. Not communicative; incommunicative.
1568North Gueuara's Diall Pr. iv. x. 136 Terrible iudges, seuere, intractable, collerick, incommunicable. 1831Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 247 About the Essays or Colloquies I can tell nothing, Murray being incommunicable.
4. Not in communication (with others or with each other); not having inter-communication; without communication or intercourse.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. vii. 307 For the North and Southerne pole, are the invariable termes of that Axis whereon the heavens doe move, and are therefore incommunicable and fixed points. 1804Wordsw. Affliction Margaret viii, Perhaps..thou..hast been summoned to the deep, Thou, thou and all thy mates, to keep An incommunicable sleep. 1865Grote Plato II. xxv. 266 The two worlds, though naturally disjoined, were not incommunicable. |