a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b, 5 b.] Impenetrable.

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c. 1400.  Found. St. Bartholomew’s (1923), 17. As yt were with an vnpenytrable scochyn wardid and defendyd.

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1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 187 b. God accordyng to his unpenetrable counsell doth determine all thinges.

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1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Pennilesse Pilgr., Wks. I. 129/2. The Foundation and Walls are vnpenetrable, the Rampiers impregnable.

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1652.  G. Herbert, Priest to the Temple, xxxiv. 152. To them an unpenetrable rock, an unaccessible desert.

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