单词 | imponderabilia |
释义 | imponderabilian. With plural agreement. Imponderables, imponderable factors. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > [noun] > instance of lock1563 incomprehensibility1651 inscrutables1665 incomprehensible1678 inconceivable1706 I know not what1711 unknowable1725 unsearchable1725 indefinable1810 a sealed book1814 unknowable1816 unintelligible1838 inconceivability1851 imponderable1855 inscrutablenessa1864 unfathomability1867 unthinkable1871 closed book1913 intangible1914 imponderabilia1925 generation gap1962 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > immaterial or incorporeal thing > immaterial things spiritc1384 immaterial1608 incorporeal1628 imponderabilia1925 1925 W. J. Locke Great Pandolfo xxiv. 300 A man beaten not by Fortune, not by the hostility of material influences, but by spiritual imponderabilia almost on the borderland of sanity and unreason. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/2 The imponderabilia that constitute ‘Toryism’. 1938 E. Pound Let. 12 May (1971) 316 I think Eliot would prefer your emendation. At any rate we are on ground of imponderabilia. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags ii. 111 Every week we have chamber music. There are certain imponderabilia at the Old Mill which, to be crude, have their market value. 1957 Times 17 Dec. 9/7 Tactically, the chiefs are in a weak position: but nobody can say what psychological imponderabilia may not be raked up if the attack is carried further. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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