Dictionary entry

Inscrutable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐scru″ta‐ble (?), a. [L. inscrutabilis: cf. F. inscrutable. See In- not, and Scrutiny.] Unsearchable; incapable of being searched into and understood by inquiry or study; impossible or difficult to be explained or accounted for satisfactorily; obscure; incomprehensible; as, an inscrutable design or event.

'T is not in man

To yield a reason for the will of Heaven

Which is inscrutable. Beau. & Fl.

Waiving a question so inscrutable as this. De Quincey.