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unˈtenantable, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
a1661Fuller Worthies, Essex i. (1662) 347 Winchester Castle was..ordered to be made Untenable; but the over⁓officious malice of such who executed the Order (wilfully mistaking the word) made it Untenantable. 1772Ann. Reg., Chron. 141/1, 400 houses..destroyed, or rendered untenantable. 1774Phil. Trans. LXV. 274 They may so abound with fleas as to become untenantable. 1833Whewell Astron. vii. 64 The apparently frozen and untenantable regions in the neighbourhood of the pole. 1862Galton Vac. Tour. 208 Beds untenantable, charges unconscionable, is the state of things now as then. |