a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. Introd. p. xxvi. A beautiful Girl of Sixteen, who … had not, yet, reach’d ungraspable Roundness.
1822. Pollok, in D. Pollok, Life (1843), 129. The ungraspable spectres of the night.
1853. Cdl. Wiseman, Ess., II. 305. Of all slippery phrases in controversy, a metaphorical one is the most ungraspable.
1880. ‘Mark Twain,’ Tramp Abroad, I. 168. How ungraspable is the fact that real men ever did fight in real armour.
