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inconvertible, a. (and n.)|ɪnkənˈvɜːtɪb(ə)l|
[in-3; perh. after F. inconvertible (1546 in Hatz.-Darm.) or late L. inconvertibilis unchanging.]
Not convertible; incapable of being converted.
A. adj.
1. Incapable of being changed into anything else; † spec. incapable of being assimilated, indigestible (cf. convertible 5 b).
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. v. 85 It..taketh leave of the permeant parts..and accompanieth the inconvertible portion unto the siege. 1652Benlowes Theoph. Ded. 22 The Immaculate Earth of the Humanity, Inseparable, Inconfusible, Inconvertible.
2. a. Incapable of being exchanged for one another, or transposed each into the place of the other; not interchangeable. Usually of terms: Not equivalent or synonymous.
1706Phillips, Inconvertible (in Philos.), that cannot be transposed, changed, or altered; as inconvertible Terms. 1864Bowen Logic v. 113 Genus and Accident inconvertible with the Subject.
b. Logic. Of a proposition: That cannot be converted (see convert v. 5 b, conversion 4).
1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic iv. 58 The universal affirmative..and the particular negative..are not necessarily convertible, and are generally called inconvertible. 1849W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) liii. 216 The judgment O is usually considered inconvertible by the ordinary method. 1857W. Spalding in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 606/1 They hold O to be inconvertible. 1864Bowen Logic vii. 204. 1875 Abp. Thomson Laws Th. §85. 155 The judgment O is usually considered inconvertible by the ordinary method.
3. Incapable of being exchanged for something else. spec. of paper money, That cannot be converted into specie.
1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. vi. 120 Inconvertible bank paper would have been everywhere refused. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xiii. §2 (1876) 330 An inconvertible currency, regulated by the price of bullion, would conform exactly in all its variations, to a convertible one. 1866Crump Banking ix. 185 This country had what it is to be hoped it will never see again—an inconvertible paper currency.
†4. Incapable of being turned away from. rare.
1829Landor Wks. (1846) II. 220/1 First, we must find the priests; for ours are inconvertible from their crumbling altars.
B. n. A proposition which cannot be converted.
1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic iv. 62 As to inconvertibles, contranominal and converse are terms of the same meaning.
Hence inconvertiˈbility, inconˈvertibleness; inconˈvertibly adv.
1727Bailey vol. II, Inconvertibleness. 1816Bentham Chrestom. App. viii, Inconvertibility of Geometry and Algebra. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. viii. 159 Others..complained of the example of inconvertibility set by the Bank of England. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 55 The fixity or inconvertibleness of races, as we see them. 1882Ogilvie, Inconvertibly. |