a. [UN-1 7 b.] That cannot be appealed against (or from).
1635. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Banish’d Virg., 30. An unappealable sentence of death.
1642. Vind. King, 15. The sole unappealable Judge of all things.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 898. There being no ultimate judgment unappealable from, there could never be any final determination of controversies.
1747. Carte, Hist. Eng., I. 259. The Bishops … maintaining their just and unappealable authority.
1786. Seward, Lett. (1811), I. 229. A man of ability, with an air of unappealable decision, perpetually pronouncing in modern poets that to be obscure, which is clear as daylight.
1860. Ld. Lytton, Lucile, II. iv. § 1. 11. Muse or Spirit, that inspirest … the deep drama of man!… First and last unappealable arbitress, thou!
1874. Gladstone, Rome, etc., Vatican Decrees, 38. The judgments of this Pope … are unappealable and irreversible.
Hence Unappealableness, -ably adv.
1651. Durham, Maran-atha (1652), 23. The un-appealablenesse from this judgement.
1840. De Quincey, Mod. Superstit., Wks. 1854, III. 314. The victa causa … stood, as regarded heavenly verdicts, unappealably condemned.
