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uncome-ˈat-able, a.
(Freq. unhyphened.) Also 7 uncomatible, 8–9 -able.
[un-1 7 b.]
Unattainable; inaccessible.
Characterized by Johnson as ‘a low, corrupt word’.
α1694Congreve Double-Dealer ii. v, My Honour is infallible and uncomatible. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) 69 It's an uncomatable Mark, that's certain. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle (1768) 231 The Juice of the Grape is very uncomatable there. 1822Scott Nigel xxxii, To whom, I doubt, he awes an uncomatable sum.
β1709Steele Tatler No. 12 ⁋18 He has a perfect Art in being unintelligible in Discourse, and uncomeatable in Business. 1732Hist. Litteraria III. 549 Some have asserted..that Truth was absolutely uncomeatable. 1818Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) II. 35 He is un-come-at-able. One never knows where to catch him. 1847Illustr. Lond. News 4 Sept. 158, I have never seen so uncomeatable a place. 1890D. C. Murray John Vale's Guardian xv, The hidden uncomeatable parts of his purchase.
Hence uncome-ˈat-ableness.
1727Bailey (vol. II). |