Hypertext Webster Gateway: "inconceivably"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Inconceivable \In`con*ceiv"a*ble\, a. [Pref. in- not +
conceivable: cf. F. inconcevable.]
Not conceivable; incapable of being conceived by the mind;
not explicable by the human intellect, or by any known
principles or agencies; incomprehensible; as, it is
inconceivable to us how the will acts in producing muscular
motion.

It is inconceivable to me that a spiritual substance
should represent an extended figure. --Locke.
-- {In`con*ceiv"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {In`con*ceiv"a*bly}, adv.

The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any
subject to possess it. --A. Tucker.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

inconceivably
adv : to an inconceivable degree; "inconceivably small"


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