unphysicaladj.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares V iij b In another corner, enhabiteth a Phisition and a Coniuerer, who..can coniure vp an vnphisicall drabbe at all times.

1604 H. Clapham Demaundes & Answeres touching Pestilence v. 14 The blew hand and blew spots (commonly called Gods tokens, and whereof I yet can heare no Phisitian to giue a reason, and therefore they leaue them as vnphysicall, although I take it an acquaintance of mine in the Citie was restored of the second).

1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 364 It will not contribute to the encrease..of the root, in the unphysical or over heavy manner in which I have seen it done.

1874 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) II. ix. 151 His notions of motion were entirely unphysical.

1885 Cent. Mag. 29 953 Probably no unphysical argument addressed to genuine dynamiters would be likely to have any powerful effect.

1920 V. Sackville-West Autobiogr. in V. Glendinning Vita (1983) iv. 48 Our relationship was so fresh, so intellectual, so unphysical, that I never thought of him in that aspect at all.

1988 J. D. Barrow & F. J. Tipler Anthropic Cosmol. Princ. (rev. ed.) iii. 152 Many physicists..felt that teleological formulations of physical theories such as the sum-over-histories method were unphysical.

2011 New Yorker 5 Sept. 44/1 There is something not-there about him, an unphysical, slightly androgynous quality.