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indiscerptible, a.|ɪndɪˈsɜːptɪb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + discerptible.]
Incapable of being divided into parts; not destructible by dissolution of parts.
1736Butler Anal. i. i. Wks. 1874 I. 21 There is no..reason to think death to be the dissolution..of the living being, even though it should not be absolutely indiscerptible. 1759Johnson Rasselas xlvii, A power impassive and indiscerptible. a1848R. W. Hamilton Rew. & Punishm. v. (1853) 216 The soul has no parts to be separated: in Butler's phrase, it is indiscerptible. 1880Pritchard in Churchman No. 5. 330 Definite groups or clusters of indiscerptible atoms are associated, we believe, into molecules.
Hence indiscerptiˈbility, indiˈscerptibleness, the quality of being indiscerptible; indiˈscerptibly adv.
1755Johnson, Indiscerptibility, incapability of dissolution. 1775Ash, Indiscerptibleness. 1825R. P. Ward Tremaine III. ix. 83 The indiscerptibility of thought..is, in truth, the great argument which goes to the bottom of the proof à priori. 1855De Quincey in ‘H. A. Page’ Life (1877) II. xviii. 128 Its indiscerptibility or non-liability to violent separation. |