Incognoscibility vs Incognoscible - What's the difference?
incognoscibility | incognoscible | Derived terms |
(rare, dated) Not capable of being known; incomprehensible.
* 1827 , , Rationale of Judicial Evidence , vol. 4, book 8,
* 1860 , , A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences , Charles Griffin and Co.,
* 1868 , Thomas Skinner, "How Shall We Treat Cholera?", British Medical Journal , vol. 2,
* 1926 , , Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion , Macmillan,
* 2010 , Constantin Portelli, A Unique God, A Universal Religion , ISBN 9781434983060,
Incognoscibility is a derived term of incognoscible.
As a noun incognoscibility
is the quality of being incognoscible.As an adjective incognoscible is
(rare|dated) not capable of being known; incomprehensible.incognoscible
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.
p. 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.
p. 235:
- I freely admit the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.
p. 113:
- The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond.
p. 6:
- [W]e agree that certain aspects, which appear in our material world, have their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.