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ineffectible, a. rare.|ɪnɪˈfɛktɪb(ə)l|
Also -able.
[f. in-3 + effectible (or its elements).]
†1. Not capable of producing the effect; ineffectual, ineffective. Obs.
1649Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. ii. (1654) 175 Superstitious acts, done by meanes altogether in themselves ineffectable, and unwarrantable.
†2. Not to be effected by ordinary or natural means; supernatural. Obs.
a1656Bp. Hall Soul's Farew. 7 He, in an ineffectible manner, communicates himself to blessed spirits, both angels and men, and that very vision is no less to them than beatifical.
3. That cannot be effected or carried out; impracticable.
1806Monthly Mag. XXII. 210/1 To reduce implicitly..pronunciation to orthography, or orthography to pronunciation, is ineffectible.
Hence ineˈffectibly (-ably) adv., in an ineffectible manner: see sense 2.
1658Manton Exp. Jude verse 25 Wks. 1871 V. 372 For as Christ, the wisdom of the Father, was eternally and ineffectably begotten in the divine essence, so they worshipped a..goddess of wisdom, and feigned that she was begotten by Jupiter, of his own brain. |