incircumscriptible

comparative more incircumscriptible · superlative most incircumscriptible

1. uncommonCapable of being uncircumscribed or limitless; illimitable.

   He took flesh; and doth not also think, after the doctrine of true divinity, the same divine nature, after the assumpting of flesh, to remain notwithstanding incircumscriptible ; let him be holden as accursed.

   1846, James Calfhill, edited by Richard Gibbings, An Answer to John Martiall's Treatise of the Cross, Cambridge University Press, page 153

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   Against whom St. John Chrysostom writeth thus: “ When thou speakest of God, thou must consider a thing, that in nature is single, without composition, without conversion, that is invisible, immortal, incircumscriptible, incomprehensible, with such-like. […]”

   1809, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church: Or, A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England, John Hatchard, page 377

   This was the body which was given for them, betrayed, crucified, humbled to the death ; not the glorious body of Christ, which should be capable of ten thousand places at once, both in heaven, and earth ; invisible, incircumscriptible.

   1851, James Brogden, Catholic Safeguards Against the Errors, Corruptions, and Novelties of the Church of Rome: Being Discourses and Tracts, Selected from the Works of Eminent Divines of the Church of England, who Lived During the Seventeenth Century, John Murray, page 38

   And Damascen, following the doctrine of the same Council, says, ‘It is as great impiety, as it is folly, to make any image of the Divine Nature, which is invisible, incorporeal, incircumscriptible, and not to be figured by the art of man.’

   1855, Joseph Bingham, edited by R. Bingham, The Antiquities of the Christian Church, volume 3, Oxford University Press, page 167

   Now, whosoever shall come to know his owne soule, and the place thereof, meerly by the power & worke of it selfe, shall confesse himselfe to be absolutely ignorant thereof. Therefore if nature & reason, with the powers & affects of the soule & reason, commeth short to know it self ; much more must it come short, to discouer or vnderstand the incircumscriptible nature, essence and place of the Holy Trinitie.

   1876, John Davies, edited by Alexander B. Grosart, The Works in Verse and Prose (including Hitherto Unpublished MSS) of Sir John Davies, page 178