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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Incomprehensible; not to be known with certainty.
  2. n. One who believes that we can know nothing with certainty. See acatalepsy.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.
  2. n. An adherent of acatalepsy

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Incapable of being comprehended; incomprehensible.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin acatalēpticus, from Ancient Greek ἀκατάληπτος (akatalēptos, "incomprehensible"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + καταλαμβάνω (katalambanō, "I seize"), from κατά (kata, "against") + λαμβάνω (lambanō, "I take"). (Wiktionary)

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  1. incomprehensible

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  • whichbe A person who suspends judgment in the belief that certainty is impossible. May 11, 2008

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