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incontrollable, a.|ɪnkənˈtrəʊləb(ə)l|
[in-3. Cf. F. incontrôlable (Littré).]
1. That cannot be controlled, checked, restrained, or authoritatively regulated; uncontrollable.
1599Sandys Europae Spec. (1605) L iij b, Their not erring and incontroleable lord of Rome. 1625Bp. R. Montagu App. Cæsar v. 153 Solyman, Amurath, and others, challenging absolute, irresistable, incontrouleable power to set up, pull downe, order, alter, and dispose the world, and all things in the world, at pleasure. 1652J. Hall Height Eloq. p. lxxxi, They breed up incontroulable Tyrants over their souls. 1744Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. (1765) 232 Fated in that Order of incontroulable Events. 1820Scott Abbot iii, A character..by nature bold, impetuous, and incontrollable. 1844Stanley Arnold (1845) I. iv. 196 An incontrollable desire to give vent to the thoughts that were struggling within him.
†2. That cannot be interfered with or altered in any way; fixed, unchangeable. Obs.
1605Timme Quersit. ii. iv. 116 In gold..there is a certaine incontrollable in incorruptible composition. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vi. x. 322 Of colours in generall..no man hath yet beheld the true nature, or positively set downe their incontroulable causes.
†3. Incontrovertible, unquestionable. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 477 Writings..handed over to posterity as incontroulable truths for so many ages. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii. 214 These were delivered by the Evangelist, and carry no doubt an incontroulable conformity into the intention of his delivery.
Hence inconˈtrollably adv. (a) Without control; unrestrainedly; † (b) Incontrovertibly, fixedly.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xii. 218 Being not incontroulably determined, at what time to begin, whether at conception, animation, or exclusion. a1716South Serm. VIII. i. (R.), For, as a man thinks or desires in his heart, such indeed he is, for then most truly, because most incontroulably, he acts himself. 1800T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 344 The abuses which would be incontrolably committed. |