a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1657. Farindon, Serm., 484. If … it should be unatchievable, not to be attained to by some.
1845. Carlyle, Cromwell (1871), IV. 238. Projects unachievable, even the preface of them.
1899. Westm. Gaz., 15 Feb., 2/1. A reader of less nimble wits who has not caught the trick of suppressing the verbs and leaping to a meaning unachievable by syntax.
