indiscerptible
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of indiscerptible
First recorded in 1650–60; in- 3 + discerptible
Example Sentences
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The belief that man has an immortal soul inserted into a mortal body from which, being, as Bishop Butler phrases it, "indiscerptible," it is parted at death, has become untenable.
From No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith
It is literally sanity of soul, integrity and purity of spirit; it is what has been sometimes called the beautiful soul—the indiscerptible unity of reason and impulse.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
We resign all reasoning like that of Butler, who describes the soul as indiscerptible, assuming that it exists separately from the body.
From No Refuge but in Truth by Goldwin Smith
The third is that this indiscerptible entity is in some mysterious way both myself and my property.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
Moreover, the 'sensations' or 'qualities' and their 'relations' exhibit the immediate indiscerptible unity of a fluid rather than a succession of flashes.
From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray
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