incircumscription
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English
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Etymology
[edit]From in- + circumscription.
Noun
[edit]incircumscription (uncountable)
- (nonce word, rare) The quality of being incircumscriptible, or limitless.
- 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC:
- his Mercy hath all its operations upon man , and returns to its own centre and incircumscription and infinity, unless it issues forth upon us
- 1863, The Union Review: A Magazine of Catholic Literature and Art, page 440:
- […] is conclusively shown by our author in his criticism of the Cur Deus Homo to be at variance with the incircumscription of the Divine Nature […]
- 2014 May 7, Neil Baker, Occultus Liber, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 788:
- I, myself, am constantly bird-masked in a costume ball where I can only see the reflections of incircumscription.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incircumscription”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)