a. [UN-1 7 b.] Invisible.
a. 1400. in Hampole’s Wks. (1895), I. 124. Our blyssed vnseable god may be perseyued alanle be inly vnderstandyng. Ibid., 165. It is … nerhand vnpossibull to a fleshle saule … for to ryse in knawyng of vnseabull þ[i]nges.
1531[?]. Tindale, Exp. 1st Ep. John, Wks. (1572), 427/2. Of the very Sacrament it selfe we know no other thyng then that we come thether to see an vnseable miracle.
1548. Geste, Pr. Masse, C ii. That the substance of ye bred, whiche is vnseable, shuld be worshipped.
1719. De Foe, Vis. Angelic World, 44. To see things unseeable, as St. Paul heard things unutterable.
1880. Boston Jrnl. Chem., Dec., 134/2. It is assumed that spirit is unseeable.
Hence † Unseeably adv. Obs.
a. 1395. Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xi. (MS. Bodl. 592). Þee fforȝifnesse of synne is doon ghostli and vnseabli þoruȝ grace of þe hooligoost. Ibid., II. xxx. He was vnseabli felid in þe myȝtes of her soulis.
