inˈenarrable, a.
[a. F. inénarrable (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. inēnarrābil-is, f. in- (in-3) + ēnarrābilis, f. ēnarrā-re to narrate. Cf. enarrable.]
That cannot be narrated, told, or declared; indescribable, unspeakable.
| c 1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4329 So grete is the payne of helle and so inenarrable. 1508 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. cii. Wks. (1876) 138 He is the profoundyte of thyn inenarrable wysdome. Ibid. 196 Whose goodnes is inenarrable and euerlastynge. c 1611 Chapman Iliad ii. 422 The princes then, and nauie that did bring These so inenarrable troopes, and all their soyles, I sing. 1616 ― Homer's Hymns, Hercules (1858) 104 And who..through all the sea was sent, And Earth's inenarrable continent. 1628 Jackson Worthy Churchman 25 An inenarrable hardnesse is the first and chiefe quality of the Diamond. 1716 M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 424 That sacred..Mystery of the Holy Trinity is ineffable and inenarrable by any Creature. 1730 Bailey (folio), Inena{nfacu}rrable. 1914 R. Brooke Coll. Poems (1918) 18 The inenarrable godhead of delight. 1923 A. Huxley Antic Hay xv. 213 Those Mohammedan ecstasies that last..six hundred inenarrable years apiece. 1936 ― Eyeless in Gaza xlvii. 525 The scent of the flowers was like the brief and inenarrable revelation of something more than earthly. 1967 Listener 5 Jan. 37/3 The music has an inenarrable greatness which quite transcends the occasion of its composition. |
Hence † inenarrableness.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Inena{nfacu}rrableness, Unspeakableness. |