inconsumable

adj

1. (not-comparable)Not consumable;

   “WHEN the identical loan is to be returned, as a book, a horse, a harpsichord, it is called inconsumable; in opposition to corn, wine, money, and those things which perish”

   “All things that do not lose their substance by use are classified as inconsumable.”

   “It indeed seems that compliments, words, and endearments, just like hoardable goods and inconsumable goods, can be considered here in terms of objects in circulation, caught up in a general system of exchange, be that system societywide or between individuals.”

   “An importance of this classification to Lithuanian property law can be illustrated by the example that has already been mentioned in the context of the classification of things into immovables and movables—only inconsumable movables may be the object of the usufruct.”

2. (not-comparable)Not consumable;

   “The only thing inconsumable is the surface of the earth.”

   “ever still Burning, yet ever inconsumable:”

   “Among some rarities which Benjamin had taken with him from Philadelphia, was a purse made of asbestos, or, as it is sometimes called, amianthus; a kind of stone, which is not only inconsumable by fire , but so fibrous as to be separable into threads flexible enough to be compactly and smoothly woven; and the webs made of it, when soiled by use, are cleaned by putting them into the fire, instead of a wash-tub.”

   “This, of course, is due to the countless and thirsty drought demons, who, with a thirst which is inconsumable, drink up all the moisture, so that the streams run low, the rain-fed water holes shrink to puddles, the green juicy foliage shrivels, and the earth herself gets baked, and parched, and hot.”

3. (not-comparable)Not consumable;

   “We must think of that which is beyond what we can think, beyond what thinking can consume and beyond what is the inconsumable for thinking.”

   “This possibility, in turn—one through which all impressions are left virulent and amorphous—would mark an extreme breaking point whereby knowledge itself is cast toward the inconsumable (i.e., an irreconcilable collapse of consciousness).”

   “Thus, so much of every product as is rendered by excessive abudance inconsumable, becomes useless, valueless, unexchangeable,—consequently, unfit to be given in payment for anything whatever, and is no longer a product.”