| 单词 |
incommutable |
| 释义 |
incommutable, a.|ɪnkəˈmjuːtəb(ə)l|
[ad. L. incommūtābilis, f. in- (in-3) + commūtābilis commutable: cf. F. incommutable (1381 in Hatz.-Darm.). In sense 2 f. in-3 + commutable.]
1. Not changeable; not liable to change or alteration; unchangeable, immutable.
c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. iii. 66 But allas! for good incommutable, for mede inestimable, for souerayn worship, for endeles glory, men wol not suffre þe lest werynes. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 26 b/2 The Incomutable deyte of the blessyd trynyte is without ony chaungyng. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 184 One uniforme, sempiterne, and incommutable Rule of Justice in al Times and Nations. 1842Chalmers Lect. Rom. I. 54 The giver of a perfect and incommutable law.
2. Not commutable; that cannot be commuted or exchanged; unexchangeable.
1775Harris Philos. Arrangem. Wks. (1841) 331 The powers, though invisible, are incommutable; nor can those of the shipwright enable him to forge an anchor, or those of the smith enable him to construct a ship. a1806Horsley Serm. (1811) 424 Notwithstanding the reality of those differences, and the incommutable nature of the two things.
Hence incoˈmmutably adv., unexchangeably; incoˈmmutableness.
1828Webster, Incommutableness, the quality of being incommutable. Incommutably, without reciprocal change. 1855W. H. Mill Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 197 But the first element of this name Eliakim..differs in its initial radical letter and etymology from Ἡλί..as completely and incommutably as do their respective correlations in Arabic, Allah and Ali. |
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