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insociable, a. Now rare.|ɪnˈsəʊʃ(ɪ)əb(ə)l|
[ad. L. insociābil-is, f. in- (in-3) + sociābilis sociable. Cf. F. insociable (1564 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
†1. That cannot be associated or combined; incapable of union; incompatible. Obs.
1581Savile Tacitus, Agric. (1662) 184 Prince Nerua..hath wisely matched and mixed together two things heretofore insociable. 1624Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1672) 19 Lime and wood are insociable. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. Contents 189 To deny God the honour of His Holiness, His singular, insociable and incommunicable Nature.
2. Not disposed for society or social intercourse; unsociable.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 809 This austere insociable life. 1626L. Owen Spec. Jesuit. To Rdr., The pernitious and insociable Societie of the Iesuites. 1653R. Sanders Physiogn. 171 She is at enmity with her own kindred, insociable. 1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. ix. (1872) VI. 246 In all countries there are insociable fellows, with whom you are obliged to live, though it is difficult.
Hence inˈsociableness (Bailey vol. II, 1727); inˈsociably adv. (Craig, 1847). |