incognizable

Example Sentences

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And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George

Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)

By entite is generally understood a substance which the imagination grasps, but which is incognizable by the senses and the reason.

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

If they are utterly incognizable, how does Hamilton know that they are contradictory?

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)