a. Now rare. [UN-1 7 b.]
1. Not agreeable or pleasing; not to one’s liking or taste; disagreeable, uncongenial. Also const. to, unto.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. met. i. (1868), 4. But now … myn vnpitouse lijf draweþ a-long vnagreable dwellynges in me.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr. (W. de W., 1495), I. clxiv. 173/1. In all maner of her dedes she was unagreable to god.
1547. Sir W. Paget, in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), II. vii. 57. Then shall it be well don … to send an express man, not unagreeable to any of both the parts.
1671. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., IX. § 1. We are now entering upon a time, the representation … whereof must be the most unpleasant … to the reader … and as unagreeable and difficult to the writer.
1683. J. L., in J. Pordage, Mystic Div., To Rdr. 5. His Soul, which then groaned to be set loose from so unagreeable a Bodie.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Box, The Excellency of its Wood makes amends for its unagreeable Smell.
1808. Jane Austen, Lett. (1884), I. 361. Mr. M. was not unagreeable, though nothing seemed to go right with him.
1866. Lond. Rev., 5 May, 499/2. There is another class of persons who … are what one might call (if there were such a word in the English language) ‘unagreeable’ people.
† 2. Unconformable or unsuitable to, inconsistent or incongruous with. Obs.
1550. Bale, Apol., 57. Here, how inconstaunt, unagreable, and contraryouse he is also to hymselfe.
1566. Painter, Pal. Pleas. (1569), 86 b. Thinkinge it better … to haue a wife unagreable to his estate, then to suffer him to die for her sake.
1580. E. Knight, Trial Truth, 12. The millers hackney vnagreeable with the true rules and accident of armes.
1624. Heywood, Gunaik., III. 151. Least any abject thing or unworthie may be objected against us unagreable with our blood and qualitie.
1667. Milton, P. L., X. 256. Let us try Adventrous work, yet to thy power and mine Not unagreeable.
1684. H. More, Answer, 42. Also it is unagreeable with the making the Christian Emperours the seventh Head.
1702. H. Dodwell, Apol., § 14, in S. Parker, Cicero’s De Finibus, b 4 b. This was thought to be the case of the Biothanatoi … which made it unagreeable to the Principles of Philosophy for any to imitate it.
Hence Unagreeableness.
1658. Whole Duty Man, xii. § 8. That unagreeableness that was betwixt their practice, and their law.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, xvi. ¶ 2. A doctrine, whose unagreeableness to the gospel-œconomy rendred it suspicious.
