a. Obs. rare. Also 5 vnbehuvable. [UN-1 7 b.] Unsuitable; unprofitable.
c. 1440. Alph. Tales, 63. Þan Joseph thoght þat & sho hatid euer-ilk a man, sho sulde not be vnbehuvable vnto hym.
1550. Cheke in Harington’s Nugæ Ant. (1804), I. 42. Heareby all sortes of students … be … enabled to attaine to a greater and perfecter trade of learning, not unbehovable for the commonwelthe.
