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unˈpalpable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Impalpable.
1538Elyot Addit., Asomatos, vnpalpable, or that can not be felt. 1576G. Baker tr. Gesner's Jewell of Health 109 b, The same bring to a fine powder in a brasse morter as in a maner unpalpable. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iv. ii. (1886) 59 The opinion of them that hold a spirit to be unpalpable. 1611Cotgr., Insensible,..vnpalpable, vnfeelable. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Sallet, An Ingredient never to be omited..provided it be not minutely beaten to an almost unpalpable Dust. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. xxvii, We sat in the baptism of the far, unpalpable spray. |