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  1. Unspeakable; inexpressible. If the malignity of this sad contagion spend no faster before winter, the calamity will be indicible. Evelyn, To Lord Cornebery, Sept. 9, 1665.

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  • Let the reader carefully meditate on § 651, for there the indicible —  Hebrew Literature
  • Yet did not that quite dissolve our fears, till that other head of Hydra was cut off, that despicable Rump which succeeded, not by the sword, or any humane addresse, least we should sacrifice to our own Nets; but by the immediate hand of heaven, without noise, without Armes, or stratageme, the fame of your vertues, more then the sense of our own misery, universally turning the hearts even of your very Enemies; and then that Northern Star began the dawning of this day, till your nearer approach did guild our Horizon, brighter then the rayes of the Eastern sun, from whose spicy coast, like a true Phoenix you were to come; For so at the sight of that Royal Bird was the memory of Sesostris_, of Amasis and Ptolemy ever fortunate, and so was yours to us ----Tum rusticus ergo Suspicit observans volucrem; nam creditur annus Ille salutaris---- the happy presages of our glorious Returne, stupendious indeed and almost indicible: For no sooner did your Argo hoise sail, that the Eagles themselves fled not swifter, then the report of your approach from ten thousand mouthes of brasse, echoing from ship to ship, and shore to shore, with their thundring voices, out done yet with the shouts and acclamations of your glad people, when our shaken Republique rushed at once into your princely Armes for safety and Asylum_, not by the occult power of Destiny, or blind revolution, but the extraordinary hand of Providence, whose pathes are in the great Waters, and whose footsteps are not known: O novum atque inauditum ad principatum iter_, who that shall write Annals, or Verses can ever forget that day? —  An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661)
  • [1 "C'est veritablement un bonheur indicible pour nous, au milieu de cette barbarie, d'entendre les rugissemens des demons, & de voir tout l'Enfer & quasi tous les hommes animez & remplis de fureur contre une petite poignee de gens qui ne voudroient pas se defendre." —  The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
  • In the most seductive of half-lights his wonder-seeing eye beholds a female form indicible; he hears a voice that sweetly murmurs out the siren call, which promises contentment of the darer's wildest wishes: -- —  A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
 

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  1. from French indicible, from Middle Latin indicibilis, that cannot be said, from in-privative + dicibilis, from Latin dicere, say: see diction.
 

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