incognoscible

comparative more incognoscible · superlative most incognoscible

1. datedrareNot capable of being known; incomprehensible.

   The still small voice of conscience and the sense of beauty are direct messages from the incognoscible Beyond.

   1926, Burnett Hillman Streeter, Reality: A New Correlation of Science and Religion, Macmillan, page 113

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   6. The state of the law rendered more and more incognoscible. By wrapping up the real dispositions of the law in a covering of nonsense, the knowledge of it is rendered impossible to the bulk of the people.

   1827, Jeremy Bentham, Rationale of Judicial Evidence, vol. 4, book 8, ch. 18

   Regarded in this light, the idea of Polarity . . . has nothing to do with the fancy of Terrestrial Magnets, with Hypotheses concerning impalpable and incognoscible Fluids, with Atoms having Poles, or with doctrines concerning Ethereal vibrations.

   1860, John Pringle Nichol, A Cyclopædia of the Physical Sciences, Charles Griffin and Co., page 671

   I freely admit the existence of a poisoned condition of the system from without by an invisible and hitherto incognoscible something.

   1868, Thomas Skinner, “How Shall We Treat Cholera?”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, page 235

   [W]e agree that certain aspects, which appear in our material world, have their origin from some incognoscible transcendence.

   2010, Constantin Portelli, A Unique God, A Universal Religion, →ISBN, page 6

   Synonyms: unknowable