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unaˈppropriate, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b, 5 b.]
1. Not appropriated or assigned.
1767Warburton Serm. Wks. 1788 V. 513 Goods, which God, at first, created un-appropriate; and Nature threw in common to all her children. 1832C. M. Goodridge Voy. South Seas Title-p., A Statistical View of Van Diemen's Land, Giving its..Roads and Public Works, Unappropriate Land [etc.].
2. = inappropriate a.
1818Bentham Ch. Eng., Catech. Exam. 153 With the exception of the Scriptural, and surely not unappropriate, part of the subject. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 234 He assigned unappropriate causes. 1898Daily News 12 May 7/5 He would not say that the treatment..would be unappropriate for pelvic inflammation.
Hence unaˈppropriateness.
1838[Mrs. Maitland] Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 208 They had contrived with great ingenuity every possible unappropriateness that could be devised. |