incognoscible
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From in- + cognoscible.
Adjective
[edit]incognoscible (comparative more incognoscible, superlative most incognoscible)
- (rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
- 1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, vol. 4, book 8, ch. 18:
- 6. The state of the law rendered more and more incognoscible. By wrapping up the real dispositions of the law in a covering of nonsense, the knowledge of it is rendered impossible to the bulk of the people.
- 1860, John Pringle Nichol, A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences, Charles Griffin and Co., page 671:
- Regarded in this light, the idea of Polarity . . . has nothing to do with the fancy of Terrestrial Magnets, with Hypotheses concerning impalpable and incognoscible Fluids, with Atoms having Poles, or with doctrines concerning Ethereal vibrations.
- 1868, Thomas Skinner, “How Shall We Treat Cholera?”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 235:
- I freely admit the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.
- 1926, Burnett Hillman Streeter, Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion, Macmillan, page 113:
- The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond.
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[edit]References
[edit]- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
Spanish
[edit]Adjective
[edit]incognoscible m or f (masculine and feminine plural incognoscibles)
Further reading
[edit]- “incognoscible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10