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undiˈvidable, a. (and n.) Now rare.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Incapable of being divided; indivisible.
1548R. Hutten Sum of Diuinitie I 3 b, A person is an undeuidable substaunce in vnderstandyng. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits 97 In respect of which selfe qualitie, Galen tearmeth them vndiuidable. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 215 Hee knew iustification and sanctification to be vndiuidable. 1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 82 Eternity..in it's undividable unity. 1831T. Hope Ess. Orig. Man I. 48 Since mere space is undividable in parts separate from each other.
b. As n. An indivisible thing.
a1739Jarvis Quix. ii. iv. viii. (1749) 351 Reducing the undivideables into money, he shared it among his company. |