ingenerableadj.1
/ɪnˈdʒɛnərəb(ə)l/ Now rare.
Incapable of being generated. (Chiefly in phrase ingenerable and incorruptible, common in 17th cent.)
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the world > existence and causation > existence > [adjective] > existent or existing > self-existent > incapable of being brought into being
ingenerable1398
ingenderable1570
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) viii. i. lf. 70/2 Þe furste mater of þe whiche þe worlde is kindelich ymade is ingenerable and vncoruptible.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1031 He thought as much of the world: for full well he knew that eternal it was and ingenerable.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xxii. 163 Divers Naturalists esteem the Air..to be ingenerable and incorruptible.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. 145 It is both ingenerable and indestructible.
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 205 A high peculiar few,..whose whole position stands Ingenerable by themselves.
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inˈgenerableness n. (Bailey vol. II 1727).
inˈgenerably adv. in an ingenerable manner.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adverb] > incapable of being created
ingenerably1678
unbegottenly1736
ingenerately1871
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 35 That Conceit of Anaxagoras, of..Atoms, endued with all those several Forms and Qualities of Bodies Ingenerably and Incorruptibly.
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ingenerableadj.2
rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
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Capable of being ingenerated ( Ogilvie's Imperial Dict., 1882).
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inˈgenerableness n. (Bailey vol. II 1727).
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