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A form of conductor, designed by Ferranti, for currents of high potential, and consisting of concentric tubes of copper separated by an insulating material composed of paper saturated with black mineral wax.

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.

Not to be appeased or quieted. [Obs.] Spenser. -- Im*pa"ca*bly, adv.

One who is impeccable; esp., one of a sect of Gnostic heretics who asserted their sinlessness. God is infallible, impeccable, and absolutely perfect. P. Skelton.

Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince. I see thou art implacable. Milton. An object of implacable enmity. Macaulay.

The quality of being implacable; implacability.

Not practicable; incapable of being performed, or accomplished by the means employed, or at command; impossible; as, an impracticable undertaking.

The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.

Not applicable; incapable of being applied; not adapted; not suitable; as, the argument is inapplicable to the case. J. S. Mill.

Not communicable; incapable of being communicated, shared, told, or imparted, to others. Health and understanding are incommunicable. Southey. Those incommunicable relations of the divine love. South. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*mu"ni*ca*bly, adv.

Incapable or undeserving of being deprecated. Cockeram.

Incapable of being The bad seed thus sown was ineradicable. Ld. Lytton.

Not explicable; not explainable; incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for; as, an inexplicable mystery. "An inexplicable scratching." Cowper. Their reason is disturbed; their views become vast and perplexed, to others inexplicable, to themselves uncertain. Burke.

A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.

cated, untied, or disentangled; hopelessly intricate, confused, or obscure; as, an inextricable knot or difficulty; inextricable confusion. Lost in the wild, inextricable maze. Blackmore.

The state of being inextricable.

Not cognizable by a judge. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.

Capable of being mutually communicated.

Entangling. [Obs.] Shelton.