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indestructible, a. (and n.)|ɪndɪˈstrʌktɪb(ə)l|
[in-3: see destructible. Cf. F. indestructible (17–18th c.).]
That cannot be destroyed; incapable of destruction. Used subst. An indestructible thing.
1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. i. 27 The soul..is a simple substance and yet as real a substance as matter itself, which yet the adversaries affirm to be indestructible. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. II. xxxviii. §9. 480 The individuality of his [man's] perceptive part rendering it indestructible by all natural powers. 1794in G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. I. App. 524 [Carbon] is indestructible by any agent except fire in the open air. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 337 The bones, the most indestructible part of the human frame. a1861T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 17 My pair of these indestructible [sc. socks] will outlast my last legs. 1876Tait Rec. Adv. Phys. Sc., Force (1885) 366 Energy is indestructible—it is changed from one form to another, and so on, but never altered in quantity. 1880J. Ross Hist. Corea x. 332 The things used in the evening sacrifice are to be removed,..but spirits and indestructibles may remain. 1898G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 76 Refreshful chatter, laughter, gailiard songs. So like Earth's indestructible they were.
Hence indeˈstructibleness, the quality of being indestructible; indestructibility. indeˈstructibly adv., in an indestructible way.
1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. ii, How indestructibly the good grows and propagates itself. 1844Disraeli Coningsby vii. ii, The indestructibleness of its [the Church's] principles. 1865Sat. Rev. 11 Feb. 160/2 Their most transient blunders and follies are embalmed indestructibly in print. 1870E. White Life in Christ iv. xxiv. (1878) 378 The thought of the indestructibleness of the wicked in the fires of hell. |