sealed book

noun

1. something beyond understanding and therefore unknown.

sealed book

noun

1. another term for closed book

Word History and Origins

Origin of sealed book¹

First recorded in 1810–20

Example Sentences

A similar explanation of fossils was given by the engineer-artist Leonardo de Vinci in the fifteenth century, and by the potter Bernard Palissy, in the sixteenth century; but thence onward, for more than a hundred years, the earth was as a sealed book to man.

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The revelation still remains, therefore, a sealed book until "after the resurrection."

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Even distant Europe was no sealed book to them.

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Ely, rising majestic from the plain; the very singular and impressive run along the sandy coast from Cromer to Wells-next-Sea; the road on thence to Hunstanton and Lynn; the glorious expanses of heath in many parts of Norfolk and Suffolk; the extraordinary hedges of fir along the roadside near Elvedon and in many another place—all these things, and a score besides—were as a sealed book to me.

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The Word of God was as a sealed Book, and she had no spiritual enjoyment, which she much deplored; also, the visits of our dear Pastor and her uncle failed to give any comfort.

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