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† inˈdicible, a. Obs.
Also 5 -dycybylle, 6 -dycible.
[a. OF. indicible (1480 in Hatz.-Darm.) or ad. med.L. indīcibilis, f. in- (in-3) + dīcibilis, f. dīcĕre to say: see dicible.]
Unspeakable, inexpressible.
1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. xix, It is grete joye and indicible gladnes to all hys enemies. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 40 Owte of that same fowle ponde bysyly brake a myste of an indycybylle stenche. c1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 1037 To consider and beholde the indicible vertues of the whiche our Lorde..hath..made [you] to shine. 1685Evelyn Mrs. Godolphin (1888) 151 O vnparalell'd loss! O griefe indicible. |