1. = INCREDIBLE a. 1. (Common c. 1550–1650.)
c. 1440. Wycliffite Bible, Judg. xx. 5 (MS. Bodl. 277). Þei han traueilid my wijf wiþ vncredible wodnesse of leccherie.
1482. Monk of Evesham, xlix. (Arb.), 93. An oncredyble and inestymable conforte of ioye and plesure.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 424 b. It is vncredible, with what rebukes and railinges ye people receiued hym.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. iv. § 10. Rarities and reports, that seeme vncredible.
1653. Holcroft, Procopius, Vandal Wars, II. 47. A thing seeming difficult, and uncredible to such as have not seen our former actions.
1680. Morden, Geog. Rect., Turkey, 356. Taken by … Mustapha … with an uncredible Slaughter.
2. Incredulous. rare.
1553. Douglas’s Æneid, IV. 87. Quhy dois he refuse my wourdis and prayers To lat entyr in hys dul vncredyble [Small vntretable] eris?
Hence † Uncredibility; † Uncredibly adv.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, f vj b. An vncredibilitie of Cocoldis.
1565. Stapleton, trans. Bede’s Hist. Ch. Eng., Pref. 9. We see as much vncredibilite … in the one as in the other.
1565. Cooper, Thesaurus, Incredibiliter,… vncredibly: meruaylously.
