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unˈreasonable, a. (adv.)
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Not endowed with reason; irrational.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 599 He..fares als an unresonabel beste, Þat his awen wille folowes. 1382Wyclif 2 Peter ii. 12 Thes sotheli [ben] as vnresounable beestes. c1400Destr. Troy 4428 A Roid beste vnreasonable. c1450Myrr. our Ladye 287 But vnresonable creatures..prayse god, in that they do as god hathe..ordeyned them to do. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 119 Other creatures that ar vnresonable Goeth on all foure. 1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 69 b, All the Pagans..doo affirme..that reasonable soules goo into unreasonable bodies. 1615W. Bedwell Moham. Impost. ii. §89 We shall leade our life..as beasts and vnreasonable creatures do. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. 265 Nay, go to your Raven and Stag, those longest livers of all the unreasonable breathers. 1675Brooks Gold. Key 231 All the creatures, both reasonable and unreasonable, do in some sort set forth the praises of Christ. 1795Southey Soldier's Fun. 35 Whilst his fellow-man..Must as the unreasonable beast drag on A life of labour. 1861Reade Cloister & H. lxxiii, There were buffaloes, lizards,..leopards; any unreasonable beast but the right one.
transf.1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 111 Thy wild acts denote The vnreasonable Furie of a beast.
2. Not acting in accordance with reason or good sense; not reasonable in conduct, demands, expectations, etc.
c1375Cursor M. 6614 (Fairf.), Quen þai þis sagh, qua soþ wil say, Þa vnresonable folk þuȝt na play. c1400Comm. Luke i. 22 (MS. Bodl. 143), Þe puple of iewes semeþ lyk to doumb sacarie, whiche puple is so vnresonable þat it may not ȝyue resoun of his dedis. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour e vi b, This newe kynge..was to them full hard and felon, & also to al his comyns he was vnresonable. 1496Act 12 Hen. VII, c. vii, Divers unresonable and detestable persones..wilfully committe murdre. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 126 Least thei beyng nedy and innocente people, should be..turmented with the vnreasonable men of warre. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. i. 203 What man is there so much vnreasonable, If you had pleas'd to haue defended it With any termes of Zeale. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. I. i. 3 [This] will give the most reasonable men satisfaction; for the unreasonable, I care not a fig for them. c1670Hobbes Dial. Com. Laws (1681) 10 When the greatest part of Men are so unreasonable as they are. 1740Ld. Harrington in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 275, I hope therefore that I shall not be thought unreasonable in preferring this Petition to the King. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxxiv, He was capricious, unreasonable, peremptory, and inconsistent. 1876Mozley Univ. Serm. x. (ed. 2) 205 They are not so unreasonable as to expect that they can like persons without knowing them.
3. Not in accordance with reason; not based upon sound reason or good sense.
a1340Hampole Psalter lxxvii. 76 Nurishynge of vnresonabill thoghtis. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. vi. 153 For it is an vnresonable Religioun þat hath riȝte nouȝte of certeyne. c1450Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) 221 O, holy prophete! graunt me mercy! Of my synnys unresonable. 1533More Debell. Salem Wks. 983/1 To shew that the same spiritual law, which this man would proue vnreasonable, is not in dede proued vnreasonable. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 226 b, Neyther that he enforce them to any vnreasonable condicyon or vnworthye for them. 1660Trial Regic. 54, I do hold the Prisoner's Plea vain, and unreasonable. 1688Bunyan Jerus. Sinner Saved (1886) 50 It would be the unreasonablest thing in the world to render hatred for love. 1711Addison Spect. No. 164 ⁋1 He contracted an unreasonable Aversion towards his Son. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xxxi, I think it a very unreasonable demand. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 159 The panic was not unreasonable. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv, A vague, unreasonable anxiety about Elsie haunted him.
†b. Inequitable, unfair; unjustifiable. Obs.
a1400Morte Arth. 3453, I rede thow rekkyne and reherse un-resonable dedis. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxc. [clxxxvi.] 582 We haue to laye to his charge dyuers artycles vnresonable whiche requyre iudgement of punisyon. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 140 That..which thou thinkest unreasonable to be done by another to thy selfe.
4. Going beyond what is reasonable or equitable; excessive in amount or degree.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 233 Lordis many tymes don wrongis to pore men by..vnresonable mercymentis & vnresonable taxis. c1450Mirk's Festial 101 Pharao..oppressyth the pepull of Israell wyth bondage and wyth vn⁓resynabull werkes. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xiv. (1885) 144 Yff this ordre be kept,..suytours..shall [not] be importunite or brocage optayne any vnresonable desires. 1542Brinklow Compl. xxiv. (1874) 73 But the forkyd persecutors haue vnreasonable riches..in their handys. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. C 8, Is not this too vnreasonable, to take a crowne..for writing six or seuen lines? 1617Moryson Itin. I. 220 No Christian may enter this place..except he will giue an vnreasonable reward. 1680Prideaux Lett. (Camden) 79 Y⊇ unreasonable prices set upon Bibles. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 195 Almost any reasonable quantity might have been sold there; but the truth is, we had an unreasonable quantity. 1796F. Burney Camilla III. 416 She could never again consent to interfere in his unreasonable requests. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 373 He had to wait a most unreasonable time for a judgment. 1893Law Times XCIV. 600/2 The [income] tax falls with..undue severity upon one class, and with unreasonable lightness upon others.
†b. As adv. Excessively, extremely. Obs.
1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. ii. (1586) 115 There are some, who coueting to be counted unreasonable honest, frowne [etc.]. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. F 3, Thus..they make shooes vnreasonable deere. |