† 1. Incapable of being terminated; unending. Obs.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 444. Albeit the thing it selfe … be past, and ye tyme thereof determined: yet doth the power … thereof remaine unmoveable, sure, and undeterminable beyond all ages.
1605. Chapman, All Fools, V. ii. 358. Lastly, for continuance of the horne, it is undeterminable till death.
1622. Donne, Serm., xvi. (1640), 160. He … considers farther … the inevitable, the irreparable, and for all that, undeterminable torments of hell.
† b. = INDETERMINABLE a. I. Obs.
1633. Earl Manch., Al Mondo (1636), 32. An undeterminable desire of more than present life can yeeld.
1653. H. More, Conject. Cabbal. (1713), 12. This vast Capability of things was unsettled, fluid, and, of it self, undeterminable as Water.
2. = INDETERMINABLE a. 3 and 3 b.
1588. J. Harvey, Disc. Probl., 44. The certaine Locall region lurketh stil undetermined, yea, and undeterminable to, in my poore conceite.
1644. Milton, Divorce (ed. 2), II. xxi. 78. It doth all one as if it sent back the matter undeterminable at law, and intractable by rough dealing [etc.].
1692. Ray, Disc., III. ix. (1732), 397. This is absolutely uncertain and undeterminable.
1754. Goodall, Exam. Lett. Mary Q. Scots, Introd. 28. More might have been expected from so high a pretender to reason … than to conclude the question to be undeterminable.
1872. W. S. Symonds, Rec. Rocks, viii. 301. The fish remains are scanty and undeterminable.
† 3. = INDETERMINABLE a. 2. Obs.
a. 1639. Wotton, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 217. The fight was … surely undeterminable without the death of one of the chiefest.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. II. 54. Profound and undeterminable Disputes.
