Meaning of incognoscible | Babel Free

Definitions

Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.

dated, rare

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Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“I freely admit⟳ the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.”

“The still small voice of conscience and the sense⟳ of beauty are direct⟳ messages from the incognoscible Beyond.”

“[W]e agree⟳ that certain aspects, which appear⟳ in our material world, have⟳ their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.”

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