incompatibleadj.n.

/ɪnkəmˈpatɪb(ə)l/

Etymology: < medieval Latin incompatibilis (said of benefices); compare French incompatible (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), and see in- prefix⁴ and compatible adj. and n.

A. adj. Not compatible.

1. Of benefices, etc.: Incapable of being held together. [ < medieval Latin incompatibilis.]

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [adjective] > capable of being held together > not

incompatible1570

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 4/1 For infinite dispensations, as to dispense w^t age, with order, with benefices incompatible.

1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 57 Inacted, aganis pluralitie of offices incompatible in one man's persone.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 115 By the Canon Law Incompatible Benefices are Dignities, Parsonages and other Benefices, which do by some Statute or approv'd Custom require a Personal Residence.

1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Benefice incompatible, means one which cannot be held with another.

a. Mutually intolerant; incapable of existing together in the same subject; contrary or opposed in character; discordant, incongruous, inconsistent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible

repugnantc1443

unsufferablea1586

insociable1591

incompatible1592

incompossible1605

unsociable1611

irreconciliable1615

incompliable1625

uncompliable1626

incompassible1630

incompatible1641

inconsistent1656

incoherent1704

exclusivea1716

incombining1738

unassociable1816

inconjoinable1844

1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond I iij As heere beholde th' incompatible blood Of age and youth.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 75 When the subiect, and the thing dissenting, doth abhorre each other, and are..incompatible, than there is a totall opposition betweene them.

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 29 The Idea's of Matter and Thought are absolutely incompatible.

1755 Fox in H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. ii. 37 Yet..are we on incompatible lines?

1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii. 110 Luxury and liberty are incompatible.

1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 18 He felt that to be a politician and a preacher of righteousness was to combine two vocations practically incompatible.

b. Const. with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible

repugnantc1443

unsufferablea1586

insociable1591

incompatible1592

incompossible1605

unsociable1611

irreconciliable1615

incompliable1625

uncompliable1626

incompassible1630

incompatible1641

inconsistent1656

incoherent1704

exclusivea1716

incombining1738

unassociable1816

inconjoinable1844

1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 A prudence which was incompatible to her Sisters nature.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 68 The use of the shield is incompatible with that of the bow.

1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics xv. 319 Law and order seemed incompatible with the government of priests.

†c. Const. to. (Sometimes confused with incompetible adj.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible

repugnantc1443

unsufferablea1586

insociable1591

incompatible1592

incompossible1605

unsociable1611

irreconciliable1615

incompliable1625

uncompliable1626

incompassible1630

incompatible1641

inconsistent1656

incoherent1704

exclusivea1716

incombining1738

unassociable1816

inconjoinable1844

1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 113 A trade, which yet they thinke not altogether incompatible to Preaching.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 75 Is not the prescience or prævision of future things..incompatible to the nature of any creature, in heaven or earth?

1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 101 Balaam knew it was incompatible to Him to lie or repent.

1790 A. M. Johnson Monmouth III. 11 She knew the unconditional liberation..was incompatible to his Lordship's professions.

†d. Const. of: Intolerant of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [adjective] > impatient of something

impatienta1535

incompatible1613

unendurable1630

incapable1643

1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1621) 24 A Nobilitie, stubborne, haughty, and incompatible of each other's precedency.

1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 32 The English Nobility, incompatible of these new concurrents; found..a..darkning of their dignities, by the interposition of so many.

1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III 51 He was now incompatible of any others precedency and propinquity.

†3. Unable to agree or ‘get on’ together; disagreeing, at variance. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective]

un-i-someOE

unsaughtc1100

unsomec1275

discordant1474

unagreed1525

dissentious1562

odd1562

incompatible1567

disagreeing1583

differing1586

discordful1596

distanced1645

1567 Throgmorton Let. to Eliz. in Robertson Hist. Scot. (1759) II. App. The earle of Argyll, the Hamiltons and he be incompatible.—I do find amongest the Hamiltons, Argyll and the company two strange and sundry humours.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy3 Is there not a Caution..to be giuen of the doctrines of Moralities themselues..leaste they make men too precise, arrogant, incompatible ?

1656 F. Osborne Defect. Rome in Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 179 By which they have rendered themselves incompatible with any other Tenents than their own.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 291 The Quarel remain'd, the Church and the Presbyterians were incompatible.

†4. Irreconcilable. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > hatred > fact or condition of being unreconciled > [adjective] > not easily reconciled

unreconcilable?1560

unreconciliable1573

inexpiable1598

irreconcilable1599

irreconciliable1601

unconciliablea1614

incompatible1623

unatonable1683

society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > strained (of relations) > irreconcilable (of dissension)

incompatible1623

uncomposable1640

inconciliable1643

irreconcilable1709

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Incompactible, vnreconcilable.

1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 312 They set themselves against godly Christians with incompatible estrangement, and implacable spite.

5. Pharmacology. Of a drug: reacting or interfering with another (specified) substance in such a way that the two should not be mixed or prescribed together; unsuited to simultaneous administration to a patient.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > relating to powers or effects of drugs > compatible with others > not

incompatible1812

1812 J. A. Paris Pharmacologia p. vii The incompatible substances, i.e. all those which are capable of destroying its properties, or rendering its flavour, or aspect, unpleasant, or disgusting.

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 519/1 Incompatible, applied to substances which act chemically on each other, and which therefore cannot with propriety be prescribed together.

1881 R. Farquharson Guide Therapeutics (ed. 2) 24 Infusions containing tannic acid are incompatible with metallic salts generally.

1898 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy xliv. 299 Incompatible substances cannot exist together in solution without mutual decomposition.

1898 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy xliv. 301 Sodium bicarbonate is incompatible with solution of strychnia.

1917 E. A. Ruddiman Incompatibilities in Prescriptions (ed. 4) p. iii The second object of the writer is to furnish the student of pharmacy with a list of incompatible prescriptions in such form that he may find out for himself what the trouble is.

1970 L. S. Goodman & A. Z. Gilman Pharmacol. Basis Therapeutics (ed. 4) 1716/1 Cationic substances and anionic substances..are often incompatible with each other.

6. Biology.

a. Exhibiting or causing incompatibility (sense 4a). Const. with.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adjective] > incompatible (of cells or tissues)

incompatible1904

1904 Mass. Agric. Exper. Station Techn. Bull. No. 2. 14 When the two members are unlike in nature and in some way physiologically incompatible (whatever that may mean), the wound does not heal readily, owing to some sort of irritation which continues to be felt at this point.

1918 Jrnl. Immunol. 3 99 A patient of group I, for example, requires a donor of group I, the blood of all other groups being incompatible.

1936 Jrnl. Pomol. 14 360 Later, the sour orange also proved to be incompatible as a stock with imported varieties of this species.

1962 J. D. Smyth Introd. Animal Parasitol. xxxii. 371 Physiological resistance. This type of resistance is due to some aspect of the host physiology being incompatible with that of the invading parasite at some stage in its life history.

1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. iv. 151/2 For transfusions..under no circumstances should the donor's red cells be incompatible with the recipient's plasma.

1971 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 49 303 (heading) Transfer of ³⁵S from wheat to the powdery mildew fungus with compatible and incompatible parasite/host genotypes.

b. Having or exhibiting incompatibility (sense 4b); unable to cross.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization > incompatible or unable to cross

incompatible1905

1905 Biol. Bull. 8 323 No eggs segmented, but neither did the eggs in the check experiment in sea water, showing that the eggs or the sperm were poor, or else incompatible.

1913 W. Bateson Probl. Genetics xi. 239 I first tried Cinerarias, which are usually self-sterile, but I found no incompatible pairs of plants.

1916 Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 6 419 The parent species were cross-incompatible.

1937 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi (ed. 2) 5 Often, in these self-incompatible fungi, the sexual apparatus has partially or wholly disappeared.

1967 F. N. Briggs & P. F. Knowles Introd. Plant Breeding xv. 187 In Gasteria, pollen germination and tube development were not affected in incompatible pollinations.

B. n.

An incompatible person or thing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible > one who or that which is incompatible

incompatibility1671

incompatiblea1711

conflict of interest1837

a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 280 I am all Resignation, all Desire. How can these Incompatibles conspire?

1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. i. 227 Such Syntax is in fact a Blending of Incompatibles, that is to say of a defined Substantive with an undefined Attributive.

1848 H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 305 This union of incompatibles.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 1/2 He might shed his incapables and his incompatibles, and build up a new Cabinet.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	incompatible
释义	incompatibleadj.n. /ɪnkəmˈpatɪb(ə)l/ Etymology: < medieval Latin incompatibilis (said of benefices); compare French incompatible (15th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), and see in- prefix⁴ and compatible adj. and n. A. adj. Not compatible. 1. Of benefices, etc.: Incapable of being held together. [ < medieval Latin incompatibilis.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > kinds of benefice > [adjective] > capable of being held together > not incompatible1570 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 4/1 For infinite dispensations, as to dispense w^t age, with order, with benefices incompatible. 1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 57 Inacted, aganis pluralitie of offices incompatible in one man's persone. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 115 By the Canon Law Incompatible Benefices are Dignities, Parsonages and other Benefices, which do by some Statute or approv'd Custom require a Personal Residence. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Benefice incompatible, means one which cannot be held with another. 2. a. Mutually intolerant; incapable of existing together in the same subject; contrary or opposed in character; discordant, incongruous, inconsistent. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible repugnantc1443 unsufferablea1586 insociable1591 incompatible1592 incompossible1605 unsociable1611 irreconciliable1615 incompliable1625 uncompliable1626 incompassible1630 incompatible1641 incompatible1641 inconsistent1656 incoherent1704 exclusivea1716 incombining1738 unassociable1816 inconjoinable1844 1592 S. Daniel Complaint Rosamond I iij As heere beholde th' incompatible blood Of age and youth. 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 75 When the subiect, and the thing dissenting, doth abhorre each other, and are..incompatible, than there is a totall opposition betweene them. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. ii. 29 The Idea's of Matter and Thought are absolutely incompatible. 1755 Fox in H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. ii. 37 Yet..are we on incompatible lines? 1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall vii. 110 Luxury and liberty are incompatible. 1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 18 He felt that to be a politician and a preacher of righteousness was to combine two vocations practically incompatible. b. Const. with. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible repugnantc1443 unsufferablea1586 insociable1591 incompatible1592 incompossible1605 unsociable1611 irreconciliable1615 incompliable1625 uncompliable1626 incompassible1630 incompatible1641 incompatible1641 inconsistent1656 incoherent1704 exclusivea1716 incombining1738 unassociable1816 inconjoinable1844 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. B3 A prudence which was incompatible to her Sisters nature. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 68 The use of the shield is incompatible with that of the bow. 1832 J.-C.-L. S. de Sismondi Hist. Ital. Republics xv. 319 Law and order seemed incompatible with the government of priests. †c. Const. to. (Sometimes confused with incompetible adj.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adjective] > incompatible repugnantc1443 unsufferablea1586 insociable1591 incompatible1592 incompossible1605 unsociable1611 irreconciliable1615 incompliable1625 uncompliable1626 incompassible1630 incompatible1641 incompatible1641 inconsistent1656 incoherent1704 exclusivea1716 incombining1738 unassociable1816 inconjoinable1844 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie 113 A trade, which yet they thinke not altogether incompatible to Preaching. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 75 Is not the prescience or prævision of future things..incompatible to the nature of any creature, in heaven or earth? 1668 J. Howe Blessedness of Righteous Disc. (1825) 101 Balaam knew it was incompatible to Him to lie or repent. 1790 A. M. Johnson Monmouth III. 11 She knew the unconditional liberation..was incompatible to his Lordship's professions. †d. Const. of: Intolerant of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [adjective] > impatient of something impatienta1535 incompatible1613 unendurable1630 incapable1643 1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1621) 24 A Nobilitie, stubborne, haughty, and incompatible of each other's precedency. 1618 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 32 The English Nobility, incompatible of these new concurrents; found..a..darkning of their dignities, by the interposition of so many. 1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III 51 He was now incompatible of any others precedency and propinquity. †3. Unable to agree or ‘get on’ together; disagreeing, at variance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] un-i-someOE unsaughtc1100 unsomec1275 discordant1474 unagreed1525 dissentious1562 odd1562 incompatible1567 disagreeing1583 differing1586 discordful1596 distanced1645 1567 Throgmorton Let. to Eliz. in Robertson Hist. Scot. (1759) II. App. The earle of Argyll, the Hamiltons and he be incompatible.—I do find amongest the Hamiltons, Argyll and the company two strange and sundry humours. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Yy3 Is there not a Caution..to be giuen of the doctrines of Moralities themselues..leaste they make men too precise, arrogant, incompatible ? View more context for this quotation 1656 F. Osborne Defect. Rome in Polit. Reflect. Govt. Turks 179 By which they have rendered themselves incompatible with any other Tenents than their own. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 291 The Quarel remain'd, the Church and the Presbyterians were incompatible. †4. Irreconcilable. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > fact or condition of being unreconciled > [adjective] > not easily reconciled unreconcilable?1560 unreconciliable1573 inexpiable1598 irreconcilable1599 irreconciliable1601 unconciliablea1614 incompatible1623 unatonable1683 society > society and the community > dissent > [adjective] > strained (of relations) > irreconcilable (of dissension) incompatible1623 uncomposable1640 inconciliable1643 irreconcilable1709 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Incompactible, vnreconcilable. 1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 312 They set themselves against godly Christians with incompatible estrangement, and implacable spite. 5. Pharmacology. Of a drug: reacting or interfering with another (specified) substance in such a way that the two should not be mixed or prescribed together; unsuited to simultaneous administration to a patient. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > relating to powers or effects of drugs > compatible with others > not incompatible1812 1812 J. A. Paris Pharmacologia p. vii The incompatible substances, i.e. all those which are capable of destroying its properties, or rendering its flavour, or aspect, unpleasant, or disgusting. 1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 519/1 Incompatible, applied to substances which act chemically on each other, and which therefore cannot with propriety be prescribed together. 1881 R. Farquharson Guide Therapeutics (ed. 2) 24 Infusions containing tannic acid are incompatible with metallic salts generally. 1898 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy xliv. 299 Incompatible substances cannot exist together in solution without mutual decomposition. 1898 E. W. Lucas Pract. Pharmacy xliv. 301 Sodium bicarbonate is incompatible with solution of strychnia. 1917 E. A. Ruddiman Incompatibilities in Prescriptions (ed. 4) p. iii The second object of the writer is to furnish the student of pharmacy with a list of incompatible prescriptions in such form that he may find out for himself what the trouble is. 1970 L. S. Goodman & A. Z. Gilman Pharmacol. Basis Therapeutics (ed. 4) 1716/1 Cationic substances and anionic substances..are often incompatible with each other. 6. Biology. a. Exhibiting or causing incompatibility (sense 4a). Const. with. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > substance > cell > [adjective] > incompatible (of cells or tissues) incompatible1904 1904 Mass. Agric. Exper. Station Techn. Bull. No. 2. 14 When the two members are unlike in nature and in some way physiologically incompatible (whatever that may mean), the wound does not heal readily, owing to some sort of irritation which continues to be felt at this point. 1918 Jrnl. Immunol. 3 99 A patient of group I, for example, requires a donor of group I, the blood of all other groups being incompatible. 1936 Jrnl. Pomol. 14 360 Later, the sour orange also proved to be incompatible as a stock with imported varieties of this species. 1962 J. D. Smyth Introd. Animal Parasitol. xxxii. 371 Physiological resistance. This type of resistance is due to some aspect of the host physiology being incompatible with that of the invading parasite at some stage in its life history. 1966 G. P. Wright & W. S. Symmers Systemic Pathol. I. iv. 151/2 For transfusions..under no circumstances should the donor's red cells be incompatible with the recipient's plasma. 1971 Canad. Jrnl. Bot. 49 303 (heading) Transfer of ³⁵S from wheat to the powdery mildew fungus with compatible and incompatible parasite/host genotypes. b. Having or exhibiting incompatibility (sense 4b); unable to cross. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > genetic activity > heredity or hereditary descent > [adjective] > cross-breeding or hybridization > incompatible or unable to cross incompatible1905 1905 Biol. Bull. 8 323 No eggs segmented, but neither did the eggs in the check experiment in sea water, showing that the eggs or the sperm were poor, or else incompatible. 1913 W. Bateson Probl. Genetics xi. 239 I first tried Cinerarias, which are usually self-sterile, but I found no incompatible pairs of plants. 1916 Mem. N.Y. Bot. Garden 6 419 The parent species were cross-incompatible. 1937 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi (ed. 2) 5 Often, in these self-incompatible fungi, the sexual apparatus has partially or wholly disappeared. 1967 F. N. Briggs & P. F. Knowles Introd. Plant Breeding xv. 187 In Gasteria, pollen germination and tube development were not affected in incompatible pollinations. B. n. An incompatible person or thing. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [noun] > quality or condition of being incompatible > one who or that which is incompatible incompatibility1671 incompatiblea1711 conflict of interest1837 a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 280 I am all Resignation, all Desire. How can these Incompatibles conspire? 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. i. 227 Such Syntax is in fact a Blending of Incompatibles, that is to say of a defined Substantive with an undefined Attributive. 1848 H. Rogers Ess. I. vi. 305 This union of incompatibles. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 June 1/2 He might shed his incapables and his incompatibles, and build up a new Cabinet. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.n.1567
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