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unˈpeaceable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b. Cf. unpeacible a.]
1. Not disposed to peace; contentious, turbulent.
c1520M. Nisbet Jas. iii. 8 Naman may chastice the toung, for it is ane vnpeceabile [Wyclif unpesible] euile. 1570Drant Serm. E vj b, What warres..hath this foule and vnpeaceable woman brought to passe? 1608Dod & Cleaver Expos. Prov. ix–x. 86 If our hearts..begin to grow turbulent and unpeaceable. 1682Sec. Plea Nonconf. 66 The Arrians were Calumniators of the Orthodox, and so are the Papists, and unpeaceable Lutherans. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last i. (1862) 25 An unpeaceable and often irrational person.
2. Characterized by want of peace or quiet.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 101 The lord Scales and his company,..together in an vnpeaceable fury, set on their enemies. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. 55 We..live both in these factious and unpeaceable times. 1649Milton Eikon. xviii. 165 Suttle and unpeaceable designes. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. iii. vi. 408 His scandalous, irregular and unpeaceable Practices. 1770Langhorne Plutarch V. 219 His unpeaceable and unsalutary conduct.
Hence unˈpeaceableness. (Common c 1655–c 1690.)
c1475Cath. Angl. 277/2 Vn Pesseabilnes, impaciencia,..inquietudo, proteruitas. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 246, I would not have unpeaceableness and division to be encouraged. 1690T. Burnet Theory Earth ii. 193 The disorders of our passions,..and the unpeaceableness of the world. |