impredicable, a.
(ɪmˈprɛdɪkəb(ə)l)
Also 7 in-.
[f. im-2 + predicable.]
That cannot be predicated. (In quot. 1864 loosely = that cannot be predicted.) Hence imˌpredicaˈbility, the condition of being impredicable.
| 1623 Cockeram Eng. Dict. ii, Not to be Spoken, Ineffable, Inpredicable. 1864 Lowell Rebellion Prose Wks. 1890 V. 126 Dependent on a multitude of new and impredicable circumstances. 1880 F. Hall in Nation (N.Y.) XXXI. 276/1 Nor can we doubt that ‘formal grammar’, as impredicable of English..will cease to be a topic [etc.]. a 1899 Mod. Spiritual qualities are impredicable of physical things. 1906 P. Lowell Mars & its Canals viii. 95 Even on Mars nothing in the way of weather is absolutely predicable but impredicability. 1937 A. Smeaton tr. Carnap's Logical Syntax of Lang. iii. §38. 138 Russell showed that this antinomy can also be so formulated as to apply not only to classes but to properties as well (the antinomy of ‘impredicable’..). Ibid. iv. §60a. 212 Hence a definition of the form given for ‘impredicable’ is obviously impossible. 1965 F. Sommers in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 272 For example, the term clean is impredicable of the equator. Ibid. 273 It becomes unnecessary to introduce special ‘type’ restrictions to account for impredicability. |