unpredicableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈprɛdᵻkəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l/ Not predicable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adjective] > asseverated, asserted, affirmed, or positively stated > able to be > not
unpredicable1827
1827 H. T. Colebrooke tr. in Trans. Royal Asiatic Soc. 1 556 Predicaments are not unpredicable: they are not to be affirmed if not affirmable.
1865 D. Masson Recent Brit. Philos. 392 Under the name of Faith..Hamilton affirmed..much which he declared to be utterly unpredicable in the name of Reason.
1914 A. E. Garvie Joy of Finding ii. 16 Even idealism to-day often hesitates about assigning to God personality, as personality is often conceived as necessarily finite, and so unpredicable of the Infinite.
2009 H. Maheshwari Philos. Swami Rama Tirtha v. 87 It is by putting predications to the unpredicable that we mistake the not-self for the self.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
<
adj.1827