a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxvii A great nombre of olde men and women & children vnapt for y^e warre.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iv. xxix. sig. V The Earle being..Vnapt for issue, it must needes descend On those of his Being next of Clarence race.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 33 Courtiers have those [arts] by which they govern their Princes, when through any indisposition they grow unapt for affaires.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 1 He was exceeding feeble in his lower parts,..whereby he was unapt for exercises of activity.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xxi. 159 I shall prove of little force Hereafter, and for manly feats unapt.

1850 H. Martineau Hist. Eng. II. 224 Unapt for combination..as his colleagues were, his..indifference went to increase the evil.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 20 A minde vnapte for the contemplation of this doctrine.

1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 836 Such beasts..being vncleane, and vnapt for food.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §xliii Is there any thing more heavy and vnapt for motion then Iron, or steele?

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. vi. 116 Whoever will consider, how unapt for Speculation, rude and uncultivated Minds are.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VII. xxx. 109 I..have a brain so entirely unapt for every thing of that kind.

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiv. 429 In the Lamellicorn beetles..they [sc. mandibles] are soft, membranous, and unapt for mastication.

1873 M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma Introd. 8 There are heads unapt for this sort of work.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxv An vnredy and dispurueyed Hoost for the Warre as pryairs Clerkys, Chanons, and other spyrytuell men of the Churche with Husbonde men and other vnapte people.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. i. sig. Bb.iii/1 He must be no litherbacke, vnapt, or slouthfull fellowe.

a1626 F. Bacon Let. & Disc. H. Saville in Resuscitatio (1657) 230 The contrary Advantage (in Natures very dull, and unapt) of working Alacrity, by framing an Exercise with some Delight, or affection.

a1656 J. Hales Golden Remains (1673) i. 218 The longer we defer, the more unapt still we grow.

a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 402 Such Men are commonly the most unapt in Things, that require Judgment and Reason.

1588 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (new ed.) iv. Epil. I may neyther altogether condemne it as unapt, nor reiect it as unserviceable.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) ii. sig. E^v When the mould is barraine and vnapt, They toyle, they plow, and make the fallow fatte.

1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. Kiv The whole Earth..is growne more unapt and backwards in bearing.

1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living ii. §6. 132 There are many worse [diseases] then to dye with an atrophy or Consumption, or unapt and courser nourishment.

1804 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. IV. 277 Such an union was very unapt and improper.

1842 H. Rogers Introd. Burke's Wks. I. 56 Thus disorders become incurable..by the unapt and violent nature of the remedies.

1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 33^v But commonly when men in fansie burne. Then womens hartes are most vnapt to turne.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. iii. 8 Feare..is of all affections (anger excepted) the vnaptest to admit any conference with reason.

a1628 F. Greville Cælica liv, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 199 Rage, feare, griefe, Powers as vnapt to take, as giue reliefe.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 13 The parts of the body of some are so loose from one another, and so unapt to cohere,..that [etc.].

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. x. 242 A mind which was unapt to apprehend danger.

1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 37 Unapt the passing view to meet, When loftier flowers are flaunting nigh.

1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet ii. 32 Men being naturally unapt to beleeve any thing that seemes contrary to their senses.

1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 242 I am not unapt to think, that the Vale may have Vegetables analogous to our Grass, Shrubs, and Trees.

1785 T. Balguy Disc. Various Subj. 5 Unaccustomed to suffer harm, we are unapt to suspect it.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth viii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 225 You may have thought me un-apt to be moved by light complaints.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 241 Men of little creative power, but not unapt to take up ideas suggested to them.

1849 J. S. Mill Ess. (1859) II. 401 Lord Brougham has condescended to bestow upon these unapt scholars his view of some of the essential requisites of a popular Constitution.