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A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.

In an inexplicable manner.

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.

In an inextricable manner.

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

Incapable of being divided by cutting; indivisible.

Capable of being mutually communicated.

Entangling. [Obs.] Shelton.

The state or quality of being irrevocable; irrevocableness.

pable of being recalled or revoked; unchangeable; irreversible; unalterable; as, an irrevocable promise or decree; irrevocable fate. Firm and irrevocable is my doom. Shak. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ir*rev"o*ca*bly, adv.

Capable of being judged; capable of being tried or decided upon. Jer. Taylor.

Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

nt historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.…

A kind of snuff.

Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.] Any manducable creature. Sir T. Herbert.

Capable of being masticated.

Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

Capable of being bought or sold. [Obs.]

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la.