There havenât always been nine justices on the court. The U.S. Constitution established the Supreme Court but left it to Congress to decide how many justices should make up the court. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at six: a chief justice and five associate justices.
Definition of ineffable. 1  1a : incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable ineffable joyb : unspeakable ineffable disgust. 2  2 : not to be uttered : taboo the ineffable name of Jehovah.
Beyond expression in words; unspeakable. 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 39 Stroeve was trying to express a feeling which he had never known before, and he did not know how to put it into common terms. He was like the mystic seeking to describe the ineffable. 2012, Gay Watson, Stephen Batchelor, Guy Claxton, The Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, science, and our day-to-day lives As Alan Watts (1961) wrote, it involves trying to speak the unspeakable, scrute the inscrutable and eff the ineffable.