Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being burned; incombustible.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being burnt; incombustibe.
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- adjective obsolete, rare
Incombustible ; resistant to being burnt.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Pelton replied to Mr. Patrick, "If you will make obligation, contingent on result in March, it will be done, and _incremable_ slightly if necessary," to which Mr. Patrick responded that the fee could not be made contingent; whereupon the sum of $8,000 was deposited to his credit on the 1st of December, in New York, but intelligence of it reached Oregon too late to carry out any attempt to corrupt a Republican Elector.
Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 James Gillespie Blaine 1861
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But their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes, by incombustible sheets made with a texture of asbestos, incremable flax, or salamander's wool, which preserved their bones and ashes incommixed.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend 1643
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But their insatisfaction herein begat that remarkable invention in the funeral pyres of some princes, by incombustible sheets made with a texture of asbestos, incremable flax, or salamander’s wool, which preserved their bones and ashes incommixed.
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