incognizable

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Their features are incognizable so disfigured are they with stripes and daubs in red, white, black and sometimes yellow.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

The infinite, discharged from all relation to the finite, could never come into apprehension; and the finite, discharged of all relation to the infinite, is incognizable too.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

All this time the incognizable nouveau was smoking slowly and calmly, and looking at nothing at all with his black buttonlike eyes.

From The Enormous Room by Cummings, E. E. (Edward Estlin)

It predicates contradiction of two extremes, which are asserted to be equally incomprehensible and incognizable.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

And in the very act of declaring the First Cause incognizable, you do not permit it to remain unknown.

From On the Genesis of Species by Mivart, St. George