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.
Breaking Down The Roots of ineffable. Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. The hearing of those wild notes always depressed my spirit, and filled me with ineffable sadness, wrote Frederick Douglass in his autobiography. Reading Douglass's words, it's easy to see that ineffable means indescribable or unspeakable.