单词 | unmakeable |
释义 | unmakeableadj. Not makeable; not able to be created, achieved, or realized.In quot. c1443: infeasible, impracticable. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > not created > incapable of being created unmakeablec1443 improducible1704 unproduceable1704 unproduciblea1760 unmanufacturable1784 uncreatable1846 c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 39 (MED) It is waast in kinde, and þerfore hateable and fleable of kynde, and vnmakeable of kynde, to haue multitude of soulis þere þat oon may suffice as manye. 1675 N. Grew Disc. conc. Mixture iii. 48 No Principle is made by the fire: all Principles being unalterable; and therefore unmakeable. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra i. iii. §15 If the Principles of Bodies are Unalterable, they are also Unmakable, by any but a Divine Power. 1863 Trans. Epidemiol. Soc. 1859–62 1 148 Purchases for instruments and materials to make the unmakeable ‘quinta essentia’, or philosopher's stone. 1939 W. Fortescue There's Rosemary l. 282 The designer had drawn a lovely but unmakeable model which had only one side. 1979 Country Life 4 Oct. 1127/2 Seven No Trumps was unmakeable. 2011 E. De Waal Hare with Amber Eyes i. 63 These lacquers..[are] so technically complex that they are almost unmakeable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1443 |
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