Word.ws English Dictionary

incircumscriptible

incircumscriptible adjective: capable of being uncircumscribed or limitless; illimitable.

Adjective

incircumscriptible (comparative more incircumscriptible, superlative most incircumscriptible)

  1. (uncommon) Capable of being uncircumscribed or limitless; illimitable.
    • Against whom St. John Chrysostom writeth thus:
      “ When thou speakest of God, thou must consider a thing, that in nature is single, without composition, without conversion, that is invisible, immortal, incircumscriptible, incomprehensible, with such-like. […]”1809, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church: Or, A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England, John Hatchard, page 377
    • He took flesh; and doth not also think, after the doctrine of true divinity, the same divine nature, after the assumpting of flesh, to remain notwithstanding incircumscriptible ; let him be holden as accursed.1846, James Calfhill, edited by Richard Gibbings, An Answer to John Martiall's Treatise of the Cross, Cambridge University Press, page 153

Forms of incircumscriptible

comparativemore incircumscriptible
superlativemost incircumscriptible

Origin of incircumscriptible

From in- + circumscriptible.

Questions about incircumscriptible

What does incircumscriptible mean?
Incircumscriptible means capable of being uncircumscribed or limitless; illimitable.
What part of speech is incircumscriptible?
Incircumscriptible is an adjective.

Words near incircumscriptible in the dictionary

  1. incipits
  2. incircle
  3. incircled
  4. incircles
  5. incircling
  6. incircumscriptible
  7. incircumscription
  8. incircumspect
  9. incircumspection
  10. incircumspectly
  11. incirrate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: incircumscriptible (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “incircumscriptible.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/incircumscriptible. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.