1657. F. Roberts, in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., III. 239. Augustine also expounds the words much to the same effect, but altogether as unsatisfactorily.
1685. Baxter, Paraphr. N. T., A 3. Many … are too large and costly for this use: some…, are unsatisfactorily brief.
c. 1714. Pope, Lett., Wks. 1751, VII. 138. To shew you how very unsatisfactorily you write,… you’ve never told me how you do.
1794. R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., IV. 11. Materialism, as I have repeatedly said, and I hope not unsatisfactorily proved, is [etc.].
1838. G. P. R. James, Louis XIV., III. 50. Completing that which had been thus imperfectly and unsatisfactorily begun.
1884. Law Rep., 12 Q. B. D. 583. The scope and effect of an Act so unsatisfactorily framed.
