a. [UN-1 7 b, 5 b.] Impracticable. (Common 1650–1700.)

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1647.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. § 176. Such Objections … as rendered it [sc. the proposition] Ridiculous and Unpracticable.

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1673.  Remarques Humours Town, 52. They have made Love … unpracticable to the World.

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1692.  Bentley, Boyle Lect., 16. Such unpracticable conditions as these.

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1702.  Eng. Theophrast., 135. Many things that seem’d unpracticable to their Thoughts.

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  Hence Unpracticableness.

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1667.  Owen, Indulg. & Tolerat. Consid., 30. The unpracticableness of such an Indulgence.

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1680.  H. Dodwell, Two Lett. (1691), 180. That unpracticableness wherewith they are changed.

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1894.  N. W. Congregationalist (U.S.), 5 Jan. There is a certain amount of unpracticableness about this.

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