1. Of persons: Not open to counsel.
Very common in the 17th century.
a. 1578. Lindesay (Pitscottie), Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.), I. 266. Takand no thocht as ane man wncons[al]able.
1646. J. Whitaker, Uzziah, 28. Pride is a passion transporting the minde beyond reason, makes the soul uncounselable, and then leaves it miserable.
1680. C. Nesse, Ch. Hist., 60. Those sturdy rebels were uncounsellable.
1825. Jamieson, Unbiddable, unadvisable, uncounselable.
† 2. Of things: Inadvisable. Obs.
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. VIII. (1717), II. II. 480. It would have been equally uncounsellable to have march’d to any distance, and have left such an Enemy at their backs.
