Meanings (ES + gloss)
insondable
Impossible to fathom.
But if we yet rise higher, and consider the fixed stars as so many vast oceans of flame, that are each of them attended with a different set of planets, and still discover new firm…
Now, where the fiercest war among the waves / Is calm, on the unfathomable stream / The boat moved slowly.
inaprensible • incomprensible
Impossible to fathom.
The sheer number of warriors the enemy attacked with was unfathomable.
Their music is employed in celebrating their own criminal exploits, and their discourse in sounding the unfathomable depths of fate, freewill, and foreknowledge.
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