Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not transmissible; incapable of being transmitted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not capable of being transmitted.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not capable of being
transmitted .
Etymologies
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in- + transmissible
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Examples
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That circumstance creates for them an exceptional and intransmissible eminence over their successors.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Without language, intuition, supposing it came to birth, would remain intransmissible and incommunicable, and would perish in a solitary cry.
A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson Edouard Louis Emmanuel Julien Le Roy 1912
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"Remaineth," namely, in life. unchangeable -- Greek, "hath His priesthood unchangeable"; not passing from one to another, intransmissible.
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