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unˈseeable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Invisible.
a1400in Hampole's Wks. (1895) I. 124 Our blyssed vnseable god may be perseyued alanle be inly vnderstandyng. Ibid. 165 It is..nerhand vnpossibull to a fleshle saule..for to ryse in knawyng of vnseabull þ[i]nges. 1531Tindale Exp. 1st Ep. John Wks. (1572) 427/2 Of the very Sacrament it selfe we know no other thyng then that we come thether to see an vnseable miracle. 1548Geste Pr. Masse C ii, That the substance of ye bred, whiche is vnseable, shuld be worshipped. 1719De Foe Vis. Angelic World 44 To see things unseeable, as St. Paul heard things unutterable. 1880Boston Jrnl. Chem. Dec. 134/2 It is assumed that spirit is unseeable.
Hence † unˈseeably adv. Obs.
a1395Hylton Scala Perf. ii. xi. (MS. Bodl. 592), Þee fforȝifnesse of synne is doon ghostli and vnseabli þoruȝ grace of þe hooligoost. Ibid. ii. xxx, He was vnseabli felid in þe myȝtes of her soulis. |