Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not trenchant or cutting; also, incapable of being cut; indivisible by cutting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not to be gashed or marked with furrows.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not to be
gashed or marked withfurrows .
Etymologies
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in- + trenchant
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Examples
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V. viii.9 (529,3) the intrenchant air] That is, air which cannot be cut.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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Nor in tbeit liquid texture mortal "Mound Receive f no more than can thejhtid air;] The same comparif son in Sliakespear, Macbeth, adt v. As easy may'sc thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed.
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson ... 1795
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