adv. Now rare or Obs. [UN-1 11.] In an unable or incapable manner.
a. 1400–50. Alexander, 2308. Quat, & has þou ossed to Alexander þis ayndain wirdes, And me þus ill? vn-ably þine abet þou weris.
c. 1658. in Lovelace’s Poems (1904), 212. Thy but unably-comprehending clay, To what could not be circumscrib’d gave way.
1710. Shaftesb., Charac. (1711), I. 346. Facts unably related, tho with the greatest Sincerity and good Faith, may prove the worst sort of Deceit.
