a. [UN-1 7 b.] Incapable of being loosened.

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a. 1425.  trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 29. Bounden wiþ tuo knottis or þre vnlouseable.

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c. 1550.  Coverdale, Fruitful Lessons (1593), O iij. [He] dooth … snare himselfe with vnlowsable bands.

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a. 1564.  Becon, Art. Chr. Relig., Wks. 1564, II. 128. The simbole … of that vnloseable bargaine, whiche they call the Communion.

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