Obs. [UN-2 6 a.] trans. To unfit for action.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, 52. Though bookishnesse may unactive, yet learning doth accomplish a Prince. Ibid. (1655), Ch. Hist. VIII. ii. 19. A man so buried in the speculations of School-Divinity, that it unactiv’d him to be practical in persecution.
