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inseparable, a. (n.)|ɪnˈsɛpərəb(ə)l|
Also 5–9 erron. inseperable.
[ad. L. insēparābilis, f. in- (in-3) + sēparābilis separable. Cf. F. inséparable (14–15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
Not separable; incapable of being separated or disjoined. a. Said of two or more united things or persons, or of their connexion or relation.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvi. iv. (Add. MS. 27944), Whenne they ben yioynede in a dewe manere the onyng is inseperable, so that they mow nouȝt aftirward be departede atwynne. 1555Eden Decades 78 The chyldren which god hath giuen vs as pledges of owr inseperable loue. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lv. 16 They bee inseparable companions, or abyde togither in one lodginge. 1662Gerbier Princ. 20 An inseparable union. 1711Steele Spect. No. 80 ⁋1 They were inseparable Companions in all the little Entertainments. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 9 The intimate and in some degree inseparable connexion existing between physic and surgery. a1852Webster Wks. (1877) III. 342 Liberty and Union, now and for ever, one and inseparable.
b. Said of one member of a combination. Const. from, † formerly also to.
1504Lady Margaret tr. De Imitatione iv. xiii. 278 To be with the [= thee] inseparable. 1581R. Goade in Confer. ii. (1584) H iv, This qualitie is not alwayes inseparable. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 67 So originall sinne is inseperable from the mortall body, saving faith..from the Elect regenerated. 1639tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman ii. 67 Jealousie alwayes..becomes more inseparable to the soule, then Ivy is to..Walls. 1712Steele Spect. No. 491 ⁋2 Ingratitude is a Vice inseparable to a lustful Man. 1712Berkeley Disc. Pass. Obed. §16 The miseries inseparable from a state of anarchy. 1860Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 23 My inseparable companion during eleven years. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 406 Fire, which is inseparable from heat, cannot co-exist with cold.
c. inseparable accident, inseparable attribute, inseparable quality, etc. (Logic), an accident, etc. that cannot be separated from its subject. inseparable adjunct, an adjunct that cannot really be separated from its subject, though the subject may be conceived of without it. inseparable prefix or inseparable preposition (Gram.), a prefix found only in combination, and incapable of being used as a separate word: e.g. L. dis-, re-; Eng. mis-, un-; Ger. ge-, ver-, zer-.
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 6 b, An accident..maie be separated, or it maie not, some maie bee separated from their subjecte, as colde maie bee taken from water, and knowledge from the minde. Other are inseparable, because thei cannot be taken awaie altogether..Heate can not bee taken from fire. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 67 Common qualities, are seperable, or inseperable. Ibid. 69 The inseperable qualitie makes a proposition necessary, not reciprocate. 1820Mair's Tyro's Dict. (ed. 10) 414 Vē may be reckoned among the inseparable prepositions, which in composition, is sometimes intensive..and sometimes privative. 1843Mill Logic i. vii. §8 Inseparable accidents are properties which are universal to the species but not necessary to it. 1885W. L. Davidson Logic Definition ii. 44 Exception, however, must be made for the case of inseparable accidents..Neither barking, mewing..nor grunting is more than an accident of the dog, the cat..the pig; but as, wherever we have the animal, we have the corresponding sign, this invariable concomitant becomes an important fact in characterizing and identification.
B. n. Usually pl. Things or persons that cannot be separated; inseparable companions.
c1520Wyse chylde & Emperor Adrian (1860) 11 Shynynge, and heate, the which be inseperables, for the one ne maye be without the other. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) V. 278 Which, when a man comes in between the pretended inseparables, is given up. 1771T. Hull Hist. Sir W. Harrington (1797) IV. 189 Except Mr. Renholds, (who is still Sir William's inseparable). 1861C. P. Hodgson Resid. Japan 291 The two swords and fan are inseparables in Japan. 1875A. R. Hope Schoolboy Fr. 72 In the manner of schoolboy inseparables. |