单词 | illimitable |
释义 | illimitableadj.n. 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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