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单词 illimitable
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illimitableadj.n.

/ɪˈlɪmɪtəb(ə)l/
Etymology: < il- prefix2 + limitable adj.: compare French illimitable.
A. adj.
That cannot be limited or bounded; having no determinable limits; limitless, boundless.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [adjective] > that cannot be circumscribed
incomprehensiblea1340
interminablec1374
indeterminable1486
uncompassable?1536
incircumscriptible1550
unlimitable1576
uncircumscriptible1577
immensible1579
illimitable1596
uncircumscribable1608
abyssal1609
unboundable1622
undeterminable1633
indefinible1652
unterminablea1677
exterminable1813
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 57 The heauens illimitable hight.
1634 W. Tirwhyt tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 198 I might seeme to..prescribe lawes to what is illimitable.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey V. xx. 75 Tost thro' the void, illimitable space.
1805 J. Foster Ess. iv. ii. 137 The attempt to comprehend the illimitable soul.
1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes i. 13 This huge illimitable whirlwind of Force, which envelopes us here.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) 75 An illimitable appetite.
B. n.
That which is illimitable; an illimitable thing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite
infinity1377
infinite1587
infinitive1595
incomprehensibility1610
immensitya1631
infinitude1667
infinitum1682
unmeasured1812
endlessness1820
unconditioned1829
illimitable1884
out and out1890
boundless1909
1884 R. Browning Plot-culture in Ferishtah's Fancies 35 Clean-cut from out and off the illimitable.
1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 677 I see only unbounded space and indefinite time, and within those illimitables a finite world.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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