incognizable

• “And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown.”

  On the Genesis of Species

• “All this time the incognizable _nouveau_ was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.”

  The Enormous Room

• “By entité is generally understood a substance which the imagination grasps, but which is incognizable by the senses and the reason.”

  What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government.

• “Theology dogmatizing on the authority of its myths, philosophy speculating by the aid of categories, God has existed as a transcendental conception, incognizable by the reason, and the hypothesis always subsists.”

  System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery

• “Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow.”

  My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula)

• “And as to perfect success, I should be like the panic-stricken shopkeepers in my alarm at it; for I should believe that genii of the air fly above our tree-tops between us and the incognizable spheres, catching those ambitious shafts they deem it a promise of fun to play pranks with.”

  Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1

• “The infinite, discharged from all relation to the finite, could never come into apprehension; and the finite, discharged of all relation to the infinite, is incognizable too.”

  Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

• “It predicates contradiction of two extremes, which are asserted to be equally incomprehensible and incognizable.”

  Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

• “If they are utterly incognizable, how does Hamilton _know_ that they are contradictory?”

  Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles

• “Now, the context hardly allows of taking "the sea" here in its literal objective sense, requiring rather the interpretation that the natural sea symbolizes by its invisible depths the incognizable state of the dead before resurrection.”

  An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality

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