eterminable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

e- +‎ terminable

Adjective[edit]

eterminable (comparative more eterminable, superlative most eterminable)

  1. (obsolete) interminable; endless
    • 1489, John Skelton, On The Death Of The Duke Of Northumberland:
      To the pray we as prince incomarable,
      As thou art of mercy and pyte the wel,
      Thou bring unto thy joye eterminable
      The soule of this lord.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for eterminable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)