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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

incircumscription en · NOUN

Etymology

From in- + circumscription.

Meanings

  1. (nonce-word, rare, uncountable) The quality of being incircumscriptible, or limitless.
    • […] is conclusively shown by our author in his criticism of the Cur Deus Homo to be at variance with the incircumscription of the Divine Nature […] 1863, The Union Review: A Magazine of Catholic Literature and Art, page 440:
    • I, myself, am constantly bird-masked in a costume ball where I can only see the reflections of incircumscription. 2014 May 7, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 788:
    • his Mercy hath all its operations upon man , and returns to its own centre and incircumscription and infinity, unless it issues forth upon us 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC: