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Webster 1913 Edition


Unsearchable

Un-search′a-ble

,
Adj.
Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.
The counsels of God are to us
unsearchable
.
Rogers.
Un-search′a-ble-ness
,
Noun.
Un-search′a-bly
,
adv.

Webster 1828 Edition


Unsearchable

UNSEARCHABLE

,
Adj.
unserch'able. That cannot be searched or explored; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious.
The counsels of God are to us unsearchable.

Definition 2024


unsearchable

unsearchable

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unsearchable (comparative more unsearchable, superlative most unsearchable)

  1. That cannot be investigated or searched into; unknowable, inscrutable.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
      He chastiseth and corrects, as to Him seems best, in His deep, unsearchable, and secret judgment, and all for our good.
    • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 103:
      Preachers warned […] that although God might sometimes make the meaning of his judgements clear they were normally unsearchable.
  2. That cannot be sought out or looked for.
  3. (computing) Not capable of being searched; on which one cannot perform a search.

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