a. 1395. Hylton, Scala Perf., II. viii. (W. de W., 1494). Thorugh a pryue vnperceyuable worchyng of the holy ghost.
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1908), 290. In a moment, that is in an vnperceyuable short tyme.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xii. 284. Who knowes not how vnperceivable the neighbourhood betweene folly with the liveliest elevations of a free minde is.
1617. Moryson, Itin., III. 45. Their motion, being made in time vnperceiuable by vs.
1709. Berkeley, Th. Vision, § 72. The particles of the … vapours, which are themselves unperceivable.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 619. The chain of causes and effects … divides into so many unperceivable threads.
1801. Monthly Mag., XII. 422. One of those French reputations, which, when weighed in the European scale, is almost unperceivable.
a. 1882. T. H. Green, Proleg. Ethics, 347. That God is as unimaginable as he is unperceivable.
Hence Unperceivableness.
1611. Florio, Impercettibilita, vnperceiuablenesse.
