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irresolvable, a.|ɪrɪˈzɒlvəb(ə)l|
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Not resolvable.
1. Incapable of being resolved or solved; insoluble.
1660tr. Amyraldus' Treat. conc. Relig. iii. xi. 535 A thing full of spinous questions and irresolvable difficulties. 1708Brit. Apollo No. 8. 1/2 Your Question is irresolvable. 1883A. Barratt Phys. Metempiric 180 This suggests a question which..is irresolvable by Metaphysic.
2. That cannot be resolved into elements or parts; that cannot be analysed.
irresolvable nebulæ, nebulæ that cannot be resolved into stars by telescopic examination.
1785Herschel in Phil. Trans. LXXV. 262 The three nebulosities: viz. the resolvable, the coloured but irresolvable, and a tincture of the milky kind. 1869Contemp. Rev. XI. 332 Is not he a spiritualist, who..believes consciousness to be a primary irresolvable fact? 1881Proctor Poetry Astron. xii. 432 Irresolvable nebulae really consisting of stars, but too remote for telescopic mastery. 1899Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 3/3 That the Reality of the Ego is a datum of the individual consciousness, irresolvable into more primitive elements.
3. That cannot be disentangled; inextricable.
1886Athenæum 13 Feb. 238/3 The countless leaves and the irresolvable intricacy of the willow-boughs overhanging the water.
Hence irresolvaˈbility, irreˈsolvableness.
1838Nichol Archit. Heav. (1851) 122 Such a fluid..could not..be distinguished from unresolved clusters of stars, either by the nature of its light, or the simple fact of its irresolvability. 1847Craig, Irresolvableness. |