| 单词 |
ingenerable |
| 释义 |
▪ I. ingenerable, a.1 Now rare.|ɪnˈdʒɛnərəb(ə)l|
[ad. med.L. ingenerābilis: see in-3 and generable. Cf. F. ingénérable (Oresme, 14th c.), It. ingenerabile (Florio).]
Incapable of being generated. (Chiefly in phrase ingenerable and incorruptible, common in 17th c.)
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. i. (MS. Bodl.) lf. 70/2 Þe furste mater of þe whiche þe worlde is kindelich ymade is ingenerable and vncoruptible. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1031 He thought as much of the world: for full well he knew that eternal it was and ingenerable. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xxii. 163 Divers Naturalists esteem the Air..to be ingenerable and incorruptible. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 145 It is both ingenerable and indestructible. 1839Bailey Festus xix. (1852) 284 A high peculiar few,..whose whole position stands Ingenerable by themselves.
Hence inˈgenerableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727); inˈgenerably adv., in an ingenerable manner.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §29. 35 That Conceit of Anaxagoras, of..Atoms endued with all those several Forms and Qualities of Bodies Ingenerably and Incorruptibly.
▪ II. inˈgenerable, a.2 rare—0.
[See ingenerate v. and -able.]
Capable of being ingenerated (Annandale Ogilvie, 1882). So inˈgenerableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727). |
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