单词 | unpalpable |
释义 | unpalpableadj. = impalpable adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > quality of being tangible > [adjective] > not impalpable1509 unpalpable1538 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Addicion Asomatos, vnpalpable, or that can not be felt. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iv. ii. 75 The opinion of them that hold a spirit to be vnpalpable. 1619 F. Rous Arte of Happines iii. ii. 227 He loues that which he tastes and feeles, but his grosse palate doth not rellish this celestiall and vnpalpable happines. 1656 T. Morton Lords Supper (ed. 2) iv. viii. 277 Each of which Sayings of the Fathers..doe confute your Tridentine Faith in beleeving a Body of Christ..whole in every least part of the Hoast, as unpalpable to man. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Sallet An Ingredient never to be omited..provided it be not minutely beaten to an almost unpalpable Dust. a1815 F. H. Naylor Civil & Mil. Hist. Germany (1916) I. xii. 549 Municipal troops,..more attached to the palpable profits of commerce, than to the unpalpable glory of military renown. 1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights xxvii We sat in the baptism of the far, unpalpable spray. 1944 Proc. Aristotelian Soc. 45 202 I had beside me only that voice, a phantom, as unpalpable as that which would come to revisit me when my grandmother was dead. 2008 All Things Nursing i. 44/2 The liver is unpalpable, except in children. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1538 |
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