单词 | unrulable |
释义 | unrulableadj. That cannot be ruled; unruly, ungovernable. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > uncontrollable or ungovernable steerlessc888 rebelc1400 untemperable?1571 effrenated1587 incontrollable1605 unrepressable1607 commandless1609 unmasterable1618 masterless1619 effrenable1621 uncontrollable1648 unrulable1672 ungovernable1673 governless1679 unrepressible1776 incoercible1804 irrepressible1811 bronco1866 intemperable1898 society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > [adjective] > uncontrollable or ungovernable > specifically of the heart, tongue, or feelings unrulya1450 unwieldy1513 unrefrainable?1520 untameable1567 unrulable1672 1672 H. Dodwell Two Lett. Advice i. xx. 85 Preventing the occasion or increase of passion, which will be also so much easier if it be taken before it grow unruleable. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 289 Rendring a Country-property..unattainable as well as unrulable even by an Hereditary Pretender. 1855 Indiana Amer. 7 Sept. 1/8 A new executive had been appointed, to attempt to rule over the very unrulable destinies of the Kansas Missourians. 1881 in J. Hatton New Ceylon vii. 185 People..found to be unruleable by other nations. 1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 4 May 313/3 To destroy people's memory is not a way to rule them, but to make them unrulable. 2005 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 21 Nov. (Books & Arts section) 10 The Bactrian campaign stretched into a years-long attempt to rule a patently unrulable wasteland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1672 |
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