a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b and 5 b.] = UNDISCERNIBLE a. (Common in 17th c.)
1586. Hooker, Disc. Justif., § 23. I doe not meane … that building vndiscernable by mortall eyes,… but I speake of the visible Church.
a. 1633. W. Austin, Medit. (1635), 139. Let us (then) not will, or strive to ascend to Honour … by secret and undiscernable meanes.
1656. Jeanes, Fuln. Christ, 229. If we take but a drop of the sea, it makes some diminution, though it be unsensible, and undiscernable.
1710. Tatler, No. 205, ¶ 5. How undiscernable [is] the Transition from one to the other!
1794. G. Adams, Nat. & Exp. Philos., IV. xliii. 169. The primordial threads, or first principles of the texture, are utterly undiscernable.
Hence † Undiscernableness. Obs.
1645. Hammond, View Infallibility (1646), 141. Your answer to the undiscernablenesse of errours.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, 536. Compared with which … the Stateliest Pallaces lessen into undiscernablenesse.
