a. Now rare. [UN-1 7 b, 5 b.] Impalpable.

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1538.  Elyot, Addit., Asomatos, vnpalpable, or that can not be felt.

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1576.  G. Baker, trans. Gesner’s Jewell of Health, 109 b. The same bring to a fine powder in a brasse morter as in a maner unpalpable.

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1584.  R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., IV. ii. (1886), 59. The opinion of them that hold a spirit to be unpalpable.

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1611.  Cotgr., Insensible,… vnpalpable, vnfeelable.

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1725.  Fam. Dict., s.v. Sallet, An Ingredient never to be omited … provided it be not minutely beaten to an almost unpalpable Dust.

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1876.  Mrs. Whitney, Sights & Ins., xxvii. We sat in the baptism of the far, unpalpable spray.

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