A. adj. = INCONVENIENT a. (in various senses).
1450–80. trans. Secreta Secret., 8. The name of skarste is vnconvenient to a kyng.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 154. It shoulde seme vnconuenient for a temporall man to take vpon hym to shewe or teache any suche spirytuall matters.
1551. Robinson, trans. More’s Utopia, II. (1895), 278. It were an vnconuenient thinge, that the blessed shoulde not be at libertye to goo whether they wold.
1590. Disc. Span. Invasion, in Harl. Misc. (1809), II. 158. It seemed unconvenient that he should in every thing be inferior to the Englishmen.
1683. Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, p. iii. A Low Case is unconvenient for a Compositer to work at.
1880–. in dial. glossaries.
† B. sb. = INCONVENIENT sb. 3. Obs.
c. 1536[?]. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. III. 43. It was thoght … the matter … wolde have growen to forther vnconueniaunts.
Hence Unconveniently adv.
1538. Elyot, Indecore, vnhonestly, vnconueniently.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John xix. 108 b. That it myght appeare howe vnconueniently the cryme of any cruell auctoritie … was layd agaynst hym.
1561–6. Child-Marriages, 112. She … had sene the said Custance Wade and Robert Rile … unconvenientlie together in the … chambre.
