1637. Bp. Reynolds, Serm. (1638), 26. To foment their jealousies and censures … by novell, specious, and unpracticall Curiosities.
1668. Hale, Pref. to Rolle’s Abridgm., 5. Some of their Laws grew … obsolete, some unpracticall, some obscure.
1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, vii. Caroline was feeling … what an unpractical life she led.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 152. An unpractical, unsuccessful enthusiast.
Hence Unpracticality; Unpractically adv.; Unpracticalness.
1875. Howells, Foregone Concl. (1882), 313. That poor fellow with his whole stock of helplessness, dreamery and *unpracticality.
1880. Athenæum, 18 Dec., 812/3. The delightful unpracticality of good Mrs. Brooke.
1881. Trans. Obstet. Soc. Lond., XXII. 5. Where we cannot foresee any immediate effect on practice, that is, so far as we can see, *unpractically.
1880. Vernon Lee, Stud. Italy, II. iii. 49. To this charming *unpracticalness … must be added the fact that [etc.].
