单词 | accountless |
释义 | accountlessadj.ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [adjective] > not responsible or accountable uncountablea1475 intaxable1631 unresponsal1633 irresponsal1637 accountless1649 irresponsible1649 unchargeable1649 unquestionable1649 unresponsible1653 unaccountable1677 irresponsive1884 unanswerable1884 1649 J. Harrison Nahash Redivivus 18 How else should they hope for the great Offices at Court, the opportunity of Bribery in the Bed-chamber, the prodigal, and accountless waste of the privy Purse, for the relief of their Beggery; unto which, to compel their King, they know the best of all men, by their unblushing importunities. 1655 J. Shirley Polititian i. i Accountless liberty Is ruin of whole families. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > [adjective] > innumerable or unreckonable untellinga1300 unnumberablea1382 unnumerable?a1425 innumberable1434 intellable1537 numberless1573 uncountable1582 innumeral1585 countless1593 incomputable1606 sumlessa1616 unreckonable1647 accountless?1650 unsummable1667 uncomputable1678 unaccountablea1699 unenumerated1799 unenumerable1895 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [adjective] > too numerous to be counted innumerable1340 unaimablea1382 infinitec1405 innumerousc1540 sans nombre1550 untolda1586 unreckonable1647 accountless?1650 myriad1654 myriaded1667 legion1687 myriad1765 dunnamany1836 myriadfold1874 ?1650 Don Bellianis of Greece 54 Yielding the accountless thanks of dutiful servitors at your command. 3. Having no account, esp. a bank or other financial account; characterized by the lack of an account. Now rare. ΚΠ 1714 R. North Gentleman Accomptant 101 This course is used by the Corn-Merchants and great Traders, that Traffick with Countrymen, who are accomptless. 1841 R. W. Emerson Let. 16 May (1966) I. 400 They then affirmed that they would let me have the statement as early as the 12th, that I might have time, here in my accompt-less bushes, to have the same copied. 1851 Daily News 12 Mar. 4/2 The same cabinet confidently reposing in the belief that the Woods and Forests humbug could go on in the old jog-trot, accountless, auditless, profitless. 1903 Iola (Kansas) Daily Reg. 19 Mar. 2/3 Mr. Ceyes..has departed, leaving some reminders behind in the way of accountless checks. 1998 R. E. Litan & J. Rauch Amer. Finance for 21st Cent. v. 175 Accountless families are also more likely to be headed by someone who is single, unemployed, or female. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1649 |
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