Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being expanded, dilated, or diffused.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of expansion, enlargement, or extension.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Incapable of
expansion orenlargement .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Being almost completely encased by a somewhat inexpansible and insensitive wall and sole, renders the foot subject to pathologic changes peculiar to itself.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 John Victor Lacroix
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Now, if we could succeed in removing from this inexpansible, universal ocean of ether even the most ultimate portion, there would be a literal vacuum with nothing to fill it, and the equilibrium of the universe would be destroyed.
A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake
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And the tendencies of deism in France grew more violently destructive, not only because religious superstition was grosser, but because that superstition was incorporated in a strong and inexpansible social structure.
Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905
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And the tendencies of deism in France grew more violently destructive, not only because religious superstition was grosser, but because that superstition was incorporated in a strong and inexpansible social structure.
Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) John Morley 1880
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