undeˈterminable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
† 1. Incapable of being terminated; unending. Obs.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 444 Albeit the thing it selfe..be past, and y⊇ tyme thereof determined: yet doth the power..thereof remaine unmoveable, sure, and undeterminable beyond all ages. 1605 Chapman All Fools v. ii. 358 Lastly, for continuance of the horne, it is undeterminable till death. 1622 Donne Serm. xvi. (1640) 160 He..considers farther..the inevitable, the irreparable, and for all that, undeterminable torments of hell. |
† b. = indeterminable a. 1. Obs.
| 1633 Earl of Manchester Al Mondo (1636) 32 An undeterminable desire of more than present life can yeeld. 1653 H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 12 This vast Capability of things was unsettled, fluid, and, of it self, undeterminable as Water. |
2. = indeterminable a. 3 and 3 b.
| 1588 J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 44 The certaine Locall region..lurketh stil undetermined, yea, and undeterminable to, in my poore conceite. 1644 Milton Divorce (ed. 2) ii. xxi. 78 It doth all one as if it sent back the matter undeterminable at law, and intractable by rough dealing [etc.]. 1692 Ray Disc. iii. ix. (1732) 397 This is absolutely uncertain and undeterminable. 1754 Goodall Exam. Lett. Mary Q. Scots Introd. 28 More might have been expected from so high a pretender to reason..than to conclude the question to be undeterminable. 1872 W. S. Symonds Rec. Rocks viii. 301 The fish remains are scanty and undeterminable. |
† 3. = indeterminable a. 2. Obs.
| a 1639 Wotton in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 217 The fight was..surely undeterminable without the death of one of the chiefest. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 54 Profound and undeterminable Disputes. |