单词 | illimitable |
释义 | illimitable, a. (n.)|ɪˈlɪmɪtəb(ə)l, ɪll-| [f. il-2 + limitable: cf. F. illimitable.] That cannot be limited or bounded; having no determinable limits; limitless, boundless.
1596Spenser Hymn Heav. Love 57 The heauens illimitable hight. 1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. I.) 198, I might seeme to..prescribe lawes to what is illimitable. 1725Pope Odyss. xx. 75 Tost thro' the void illimitable space. 1805Foster Ess. iv. ii. 137 The attempt to comprehend the illimitable soul. 1840Carlyle Heroes i. (1841) 13 This huge illimitable whirlwind of Force, which envelops us here. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe (1894) 75 An illimitable appetite. B. n. That which is illimitable; an illimitable thing.
1884Browning Ferishtah, Plot-culture 35 Clean-cut from out and off the illimitable. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Mar. 677, I see only unbounded space and indefinite time, and within those illimitables a finite world. |

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