单词 | unconfinable |
释义 | unconfinableadj. (un- prefix1 1b.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [adjective] > free from confinement > that cannot be confined unconfinable1602 inconfinable1606 1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor ii. ii. 21 You stand vpon your honor. Why thou vnconfinable basenesse thou, tis as much as I can do to keep the termes of my honor precise. 1669 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa VI. iii. vi. 185 Your pitty..'tis so great, and unconfinable. 1806 R. Patterson Adams's Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (rev. ed.) I. App. 523 [Light and caloric] being of too subtile a nature to be confined in any vessels which we possess, have..been termed unconfinable bodies. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 291 Light and caloric, those unconfinable powers which so many of these manipulations elicit or require. 1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. iii. 180 It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable. Derivatives unconˈfinably adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > [adverb] > free from confinement > that cannot be confined unconfinablya1657 a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 161 But I outrun the Constable: Dear Brother, Unconfinably yours to serve you, R. L. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1602 |
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