Inconsumable

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not consumable;; Incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent by normal use. not-comparable

    "WHEN the identical loan is to be returned, as a book, a horse, a harpsichord, it is called inconsumable; in opposition to corn, wine, money, and those things which perish"

  2. 2
    Not consumable;; Incapable of being consumed by any destructive or neutralizing force or act; indestructable; persistent. not-comparable

    "The only thing inconsumable is the surface of the earth."

  3. 3
    Not consumable;; That one cannot consume; unusable. not-comparable

    "We must think of that which is beyond what we can think, beyond what thinking can consume and beyond what is the inconsumable for thinking."

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"WHEN the identical loan is to be returned, as a book, a horse, a harpsichord, it is called inconsumable; in opposition to corn, wine, money, and those things which perish"

Etymology

From in- + consumable.

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