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indiscerpible en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + discerpible.

Meanings

1. Not discerpible; inseparable.
   • First, That we have no Way of determining by Experience, what is the certain Bulk of the living Being each Man calls himself: and yet, till it be determined that it is larger in Bulk than the solid elementary Particles of Matter, which there is no Ground to think any natural Power can dissolve, there is no sort of Reason to think Death to be the Dissolution of it, of the living Being, even though it should not be absolutely indiscerpible. 1736, Joseph Butler, Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed:
   • To be impenetrable, diſcerpible, and unactive, is the nature of all Body and Matter, as ſuch: And the properties of a Spirit are the direct contrary, to be penetrable, indiſcerpible, and ſelf-motive: Yea, ſo different they are in all things, that they ſeem to have nothing but Being, and the Tranſcendental Attributes of that, in common: […] 1676, Joseph Glanvill, “Essay I. Against Confidence in Philosophy, and Matters of Speculation.”, in Essays on Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, London: […] J[ohn] D[arby] for John Baker, […], and Henry Mortlock, […], →OCLC, page 3:

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