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unreˈceivable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Incapable of being received.
1611Cotgr., Inadmissible, vnadmittable, vnreceiuable, vnacceptable. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 132 There is a receipt..whereby any man..may render his testimony unreceivable. 1877M. Arnold Last Ess. on Ch. p. xxx, Those who had thrown it aside because what was presented to them under its name was so unreceivable.
†2. Unfit to receive one. Obs.—1
1634Herbert Trav. 118 If that Kingdome haue a purgatory, so a conspiracie of..scalding sand, the burning Sun, and vnreceiueable Cottages, can make one. |