1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John i. 7. Moses … brought a lawe vneffectuall, sharpe, and hard.
1590. Swinburne, Testaments, 240. The testament made by feare is vneffectuall.
1620. Gataker, Mariage Praier, 13. The vndue manner of the repairing euen of such to Gods board, maketh those holy things vnfruitfull and vneffectuall vnto them.
1668. R. Steele, Husbandman’s Calling, v. 117. They shall go to Hell for their uneffectual knowledge.
So † Uneffectually adv., † Uneffectualness.
1661. Baxter, Moral Prognost., II. xxxiii. 55. Nor [shall] an uncertain Evil be *uneffectually resisted by a certain greater Mischief.
1598. Florio, Inefficacia, *vneffectualnes.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 319. His … reasons of the uneffectualness of baptism to some.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. 228. Having found the uneffectualness of ordinary Remedies,… he resolved to try a sympathetick Medicine.
