unappliable

English

Etymology

un- +‎ appliable

Adjective

unappliable (comparative more unappliable, superlative most unappliable)

1. (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, 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.

References

• “unappliable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.