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† indiˈvidable, a. Obs.
[in-3.]
Not dividable, indivisible.
The exact sense in the Shakes. quotation is uncertain. Schmidt says ‘Not to be distinguished by a particular appellation’; Aldis Wright, ‘Where the unity of place is observed’.
1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 418 (Qos, 2–3, 1604–5) Scene indeuidible [Qos. 4–6 (1611–37) indeuidable; Folios indiuible] or Poem vnlimited. 1602R. Dolman tr. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. (1618) iii. xi. 663 Democritus, and Diodorus affirme, that before all things, there were certen Atomoes, or litle indiuidable bodies [etc.]. 1625Gill Sacr. Philos. i. 32 One individeable and peculiar being cannot belong to more than one, as the being of Thomas cannot be the very same being which is of Peter or Iohn. 1637Earl of Monmouth tr. Malvezzi's Romulus & Tarquin 149 A point which in the abstract is individable. |