1643. Milton, Divorce, 44. By Laws commanding over the unreducible antipathies of nature.
1736. Phil. Trans., XXXIX. 333. This Rupture was … fixed and unreducible.
1768. Woman of Honor, II. 159. Those have laughed at it in theory on judging it unreducible to practice.
1858. H. Bushnell, Nat. & Supernat., xii. (1862), 276. There is nothing eccentric that … will not fall into the general aim of the plan…; no fantastic matter that is unreducible.
1861. Sir W. Fairbairn, Iron, 14. An invention … to smelt otherwise useless and unreducible ores.
Hence Unreducibleness.
1694. South, Serm. (1698), III. 271. Their Strangeness and Unreducibleness to the common Methods and observations of Nature.
