1. That cannot or may not be communicated; incommunicable.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. xiv. 21. The vncomunycable name to stones and trees thei putten.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 297. The diuine prouidence hath made nothynge vncommunicable.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, vi. (1592), 70. Men were forbidden to vtter the vncommunicable name of God.
1612. Selden, Illustr. Drayton’s Poly-olb., xiii. 269. A perfect and uncommunicable power royall.
1650. Cowley, Lett., 9 July, Wks. (Grosart), II. 348/2. Their hopes of an uncommunicable Victory.
1741. Warburton, in Pope’s Wks. (1788), VI. 135. His having no Delight in any thing uncommunicated or uncommunicable.
1780. Burke, Sp. at Bristol, Wks. 1808, III. 369. The peculiar, reserved, uncommunicable rights of England.
1833. Ld. Houghton, Mem. Many Scenes, To Landor (1844), 144. The power of uncommunicable Art.
† 2. Uncommunicative. Obs.–1
1628. Feltham, Resolves, II. vii. 16. Neither [master nor servant] can haue comfort, where both are vncommunicable.
Hence Uncommunicably adv.
1817. Shelley, To Constantia Singing, 12. A breathless awe,… Wild, sweet, but uncommunicably strange.
