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单词 unwedgeable
释义 unˈwedgeable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Incapable of being split by wedges; uncleavable.
In mod. use only in echoes of the Shakes. passage, with a tendency towards the wider meaning ‘very hard, stubborn, or difficult to deal with’: freq. used by Carlyle.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. ii. 116 Mercifull heauen, Thou rather with thy sharpe and sulpherous bolt Splits the vn-wedgable and gnarled Oke, Then the soft Mertill. [1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 521 Men, like oaks, are..‘gnarled and unwedgeable;’ facts, like deals, are fissile.]1837Carlyle Misc. (1840) V. 135 He, being unwedgeable, has remained in antiquarian cabinets.1880Spectator 5 June 722 Propositions which lie buried in these gnarled and unwedgeable periods.
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