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ineligible, a.|ɪnˈɛlɪdʒɪb(ə)l|
[f. in-3 + eligible: cf. F. inéligible (1752 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Incapable of being elected; legally or officially disqualified for election to an office or position.
1770Johnson False Alarm Wks. X. 144 The votes given to a man ineligible being given in vain, the highest number of an eligible candidate becomes a majority. 1825T. Jefferson Autobiog. Wks. 1859 I. 80 My wish..was that the President should be elected for seven years, and be ineligible afterwards. 1861E. O'Curry Lect. MS. Materials 252 He was dumb, and therefore..ineligible to be made a king.
b. Hence, Unfit, or considered unfit, to be chosen; unworthy of choice.
1828Webster, Ineligible..2. Not worthy to be chosen or preferred. 1862Trollope Orley F. lii, As a son-in-law he was quite ineligible. Mod. Altogether ineligible as a permanent residence.
†2. Of actions, etc.: Such as one would not choose to do; inexpedient; undesirable. Obs.
1779R. Howe in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 321 He reports that storming them, at present, would be ineligible. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. Contents 9 [It was] ineligible to take a greater time in the whole than formerly. 1797T. Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 155 If there be any circumstance which might render its delivery ineligible, you may return it to me.
B. absol. with pl. as n. One not eligible as a suitor or a husband.
1896Westm. Gaz. 11 May 2/3 Archibald Rolles, an ineligible, declares his love to Margaretta Ridout, a penniless girl. 1898Ibid. 25 May 3/2 Mothers of marriageable daughters..sometimes lament that eligible men as a class are so much less agreeable than the ineligibles.
Hence inˈeligibly adv., in an ineligible manner; inˈeligibleness = ineligibility.
1846Worcester, Ineligibly. Dr. Allen. 1872Daily News 2 Sept., The camp of the Army Corps headquarters, ineligibly situated..if military conditions are regarded. 1881Ibid. 4 Mar. 9/3 Unless experience of this latter place tends to show its ineligibleness for sanitary reasons. |