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inapposite, a.|ɪnˈæpəzɪt|
[in-3.]
Not apposite, not to the point, out of place; impertinent.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac., Pune Pulpit-filler (1860) 84 Another sort..fill up their sermon with..a heaped congeries of impertinent and inapposite Scriptures. 1670W. Simpson Hydrol. Ess. 130 He supposed my Answer to be inapposite only to that point afore-noted. 1809H. More Cœlebs I. 236 (Jod.), I..forbore telling her how totally inapposite her application was. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. iv. vii. §29 IV. 313 A name..inapposite to our purpose. 1862F. Hall Hindu Philos. Syst. 260 In one respect, that illustration is inapposite.
Hence inˈappositely adv., in an inapposite manner, unsuitably, impertinently.
1620–55I. Jones Stone-Heng (1725) 6 It may not inappositely be observ'd. 1823Bentham Not Paul 69 Under the name so inappositely represented at present by the English word deacon. 1884Law Times LXXVII. 307/1 An Act of Parliament inappositely described..as the ‘Settled Land Act 1882’. |