1. That cannot be apprehended.
1613. Sir W. Alexander in Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 333. O how the soule, apt for all impressions transcending reason, can comprehend unapprehensible things!
a. 1715. South, Serm. (1744), VII. 94. Which assertions … leave it unapprehensible what place can reasonably be left for addressing exhortations to the will.
a. 1761. Law, Behmen’s Myst. Magnum, xx. (1772), 85. It stood hidden in God, and was unapprehensible.
2. Incapable of apprehending.
1613. Heywood, Bras. Age, II. ii. How harshly doth your wisdome sound in th’eares Of these Barbarians, dull, vnapprehensible.
