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Inscrutable

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)

Origin: L. Inscrutabilis: cf. F. Inscrutable. See in- not, and Scrutiny.