c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., II. v. 163. For ellis the sacramentis of Crist weren vnleeful, vnexpedient, and vnprofitable.
c. 1520. Barclay, Jugurth (1557), A ij b. Neuertheles so to do it is vnbehouefull and vnexpediente.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut., xxiii. 134. For this kinde of speach were vnexpedient if to make images were … lawfull.
1643. Quarles, Loyall Convert, Wks. (Grosart), I. 142/2. What is unexpedient in the one, is lawfull in the other.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. ii. § 25. Others did condemne the present excommunication … as unexpedient.
a. 1768. Secker, Serm. (1770), II. 180. For their Abuse doth not of Necessity make our Use of them unlawful, nor possibly sometimes unexpedient.
