unappliable
English
Etymology
un- + appliable
Adjective
unappliable (comparative more unappliable, superlative most unappliable)
- (now nonstandard) Unable to be applied; inapplicable.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664, page 11:
- Wholeſome meats to vitiated ſtomack differ little or nothing from unwholeſome; and beſt books to a naughty mind are not unappliable to occaſions of evill.
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References
- unappliable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913