a. Obs. [UN-1 7, 5 b.] Insoluble; fig. unanswerable, irrefutable.

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1559.  Aylmer, Harborowe, K 3 b. I do not vrge this, as an vnsoluble reason.

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1587.  Golding, De Mornay, x. 170. Let us conclude … by vnsoluble reasons … that God … did in deede create the World of nothing.

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1756.  F. Home, Exper. Bleaching, 279. By the … influence of the air, it [sc. lime] becomes an unsoluble earth.

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