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Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event. "'T is not in man To yield a reason for the will of Heaven Which is inscrutable." (Beau. & Fl) "Waiving a question so inscrutable as this." (De Quincey)
Origin: L. Inscrutabilis: cf. F. Inscrutable. See In- not, and Scrutiny.
(01 Mar 1998)
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