a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1661. Boyle, Style of Script., 20. Who can alone … fathom the depths of Satan, and track him through all his windings and (otherwise untraceable) Labyrinths.
a. 1684. Leighton, Comm. 1 Pet. i. (1693), 199. If the wayes of Gods universall providence be untraceable.
1758. Monthly Rev., 507. A proper and salutary quantity of this untraceable fluid.
1782–3. W. F. Martyn, Geog. Mag., I. 335. The untraceable way by which Divine Wisdom issues from the infinite ocean of God.
1807. Med. Jrnl., XVII. 293. The … hooping-cough … was untraceable to any apparent source.
1883. J. Parker, Apost. Life, II. 167. Physical circumstances … operate in a subtle and often untraceable manner upon our spiritual constitution.
absol. 1818. Milman, Samor, VII. 172. I know thee now, majestic Rebel! thee The untraceable, untameable!
Hence Untraceableness; Untraceably adv.
1856. Ruskin, Mod. Paint., III. IV. xvii. § 4. This comparative Dimness and Untraceableness of the thoughts which are the sources of our admiration.
1875. Whitney, Life Lang., x. 207. The world of untraceably sexual or of unsexual objects.
