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insoluble, a. (n.)|ɪnˈsɒljuːb(ə)l|
Also 4–5 -ibil, -ible.
[ad. L. insolūbil-is, f. in- (in-3) + solūbilis soluble.]
Not soluble.
1. That cannot be dissolved, undone, or loosed; indissoluble. Now rare.
1382Wyclif Heb. vii. 16 Lyf insolible [gloss or that may not be vndon]. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 90 They haue broken..the insoluble bonde wherewith they were bounde to God and to the Chirch. 1605A. Willet Hexapla Gen. 426 Augustine and Eucherius thinke this knot to be insoluble. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xvi. xii. 71 The formost of every ranke in the vaward stood firme and fast, like a strong and insoluble wall. 1695Ld. Preston Boeth. ii. 77 Bound in the insoluble Chains of his Lusts. 1846Grote Greece i. xvi. (1862) II. 406 The insoluble knot whereby the yoke was attached.
†b. Of arguments: Irrefragable, irrefutable. Obs. rare.
1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 944/2 [To] stand for a sure & an insoluble argument. 1616Bullokar, Insoluble, that which cannot be loosed: vnanswerable. 1676Marvell Mr. Smirke 30 All these contradictory Arguments which either of them had once fancied so insoluble.
2. That cannot be solved, as a difficulty, question, problem, etc.; incapable of being resolved or explained; not susceptible of solution; unsolvable.
1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 231 Freres fele sithes..Meuen motifs meny tymes Insolibles and fallaces, That boþe lered and lewed of here by-leyue douten. 1529More Dyaloge i. Wks. 165/2 Ye should..haue remayned in an insoluble doute in a matter of the faith. 1634Jackson Creed vii. iv. §3 The number of insoluble problems is in divinity much greater than in any other faculty. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. App. Wks. 1811 II. 244 An insoluble question concerning the origin of evil. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) I. ix. 236 Unsolved, if not insoluble problems. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 134 Plato does not treat even this..class of difficulties as hopeless or insoluble.
3. Incapable of being dissolved in a liquid.
1713Derham Phys.-Theol. iv. xi. (1727) 198 That wonderful Faculty of the Stomachs of all Creatures, to dissolve all the several Sorts of Food..even sometimes Things of that Consistency as seem Insoluble. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing I. i. i. ii. 30 It forms an insoluble salt which is precipitated. 1857G. Bird Urin. Deposits 121 The soluble phosphates..far exceed in quantity the insoluble salts.
4. Of a debt: That cannot be discharged or paid off.
1850Robertson Serm. Ser. i. v. (1881) 76 Remorse is like the clog of an insoluble debt.
B. n. Something insoluble; a difficulty or problem that cannot be solved or explained.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 203 Þan þe iuges sigh þat þe cause was brigous, as it were an insolible, and put it of to a wel longe day. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. iv. 1713 To sey of it that it is passyble, Semeth to me a ful gret insolible. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. vi, That good lawes be tourned in to Sophemes and insolubles. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 355/1 Tyndalles tryflinge sophisticacions, whyche he woulde shoulde seeme so solempne..insolubles.
Hence inˈsolubly adv., in an insoluble manner or degree.
Mod. The affair is insolubly mysterious. |