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† undiˈspensable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. = indispensable a. 2.
1559Bp. Cox in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. App. xxii. 51 Your Majesty's learned and godly clergy..do think this commandment of God to be undispensable. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xiv. §4 Things whereunto everlasting, immutable, and undispensable observation did belong. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 164 The Punishment of the transgression of a Law undispensable. 1672H. More Brief Reply Pref. a 3 This..could never affright me into the neglect of so undispensable a duty.
2. = indispensable a. 1.
1609Bible (Douay) Gen. xvi. comm., The Catholique doctrin..sheweth how pluralitie of wives was..especially since Christ altogether unlawful and undispensable. 1649Milton Eikon. ix. 84 He was bound..by a most strict and undispensable Oath to preserve that Order.
3. = indispensable a. 3.
1658T. Wall Charact. Enemies Ch. 27 Religion being..the undispensable prop of States.
So † undiˈspensably adv. Obs.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. (1677) 81 Some determinate ubi or situs..is undispensably necessary to every created individual Body. |