† uneligibleadj.
Obsolete.
= ineligible adj.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [adjective]
unexpedientc1449
discommendable?1537
unpolitic1548
politicless1556
disagreeing1568
impolitica1600
inexpedient1608
unpractical1638
unpolitical1643
unpractic1657
uncounsellablea1674
uneligible1690
unprosperable1690
impolitical1748
unadvisable1758
ineligible1779
inadvisable1782
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 21 Unavoidable punishment, great enough to make the transgression very uneligible.
1699 Ld. Shaftesbury Inq. conc. Virtue ii. ii. 152 He himself may have..endeavor'd earnestly the prolongment of his own uneligible and wretched State.
1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians xx. 187 [The] state of celibacy; which to many of them is as uneligible, as it was to the Hebrew ladies.
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- secondary extinction
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