| 单词 | ingenerable and incorruptible |
| 释义 | > as lemmasingenerable and incorruptible Incapable of being generated. (Chiefly in phrase ingenerable and incorruptible, common in 17th cent.) ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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