| 释义 |
unˈstatutable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Not in accordance with, contrary to, a statute or statutes.
1634Laud Wks. (1857) VI. 388 That they use not long, undecent hair,..nor any other like unstatutable novelty. 1691Case of Exeter Coll. 22 These severe and unstatutable proceedings. 1723Swift Argts. agst. Power Bps. Wks. 1841 II. 218/2 In the present bishop of Meath's case that plea did not avail, although the lease were notoriously unstatutable. 1794Burke Corr. IV. 237 A deputation to remonstrate against an unstatutable arrangement proposed for the succession to the provostship. 1851J. B. Mozley Lett. 208 The President has summarily squashed the whole scheme, on the ground of being unstatutable.
Hence unˈstatutably adv.
1688in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 224 The one being unstatutably admitted. 1721N. Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 27 (1726) 147 That he governs his college arbitrarily, unjustly, and unstatutably. 1876Encycl. Brit. V. 228/2 The establishment of ‘vicars’, or, as they are now more usually but unstatutably called, ‘minor canons’. |