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unaˈgreeable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b.]
1. Not agreeable or pleasing; not to one's liking or taste; disagreeable, uncongenial. Also const. to, unto.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. i. met. i. (1868) 4 But now..myn vnpitouse lijf draweþ a-long vnagreable dwellynges in me. 1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de. W. 1495) i. clxiv. 173/1 In all maner of her dedes she was unagreable to god. 1547Sir W. Paget in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) II. vii. 57 Then shall it be well don..to send an express man, not unagreeable to any of both the parts. 1671Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. §1 We are now entering upon a time, the representation..whereof must be the most unpleasant..to the reader..and as unagreeable and difficult to the writer. 1683J. L. in J. Pordage Mystic Div. To Rdr. 5 His Soul, which then groaned to be set loose from so unagreeable a Bodie. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Box, The Excellency of its Wood makes amends for its unagreeable Smell. 1808Jane Austen Lett. (1884) I. 361 Mr. M. was not unagreeable, though nothing seemed to go right with him. 1866Lond. Rev. 5 May 499/2 There is another class of persons who..are what one might call (if there were such a word in the English language) ‘unagreeable’ people.
†2. Unconformable or unsuitable to, inconsistent or incongruous with. Obs.
1550Bale Apol. 57 Here, how inconstaunt, unagreable, and contraryouse he is also to hymselfe. 1566Painter Pal. Pleas. (1569) 86 b, Thinkinge it better..to haue a wife unagreable to his estate, then to suffer him to die for her sake. 1580E. Knight Trial Truth 12 The millers hackney vnagreeable with the true rules and accident of armes. 1624Heywood Gunaik. iii. 151 Least any abject thing or unworthie may be objected against us unagreable with our blood and qualitie. 1667Milton P.L. x. 256 Let us try Adventrous work, yet to thy power and mine Not unagreeable. 1684H. More Answer 42 Also it is unagreeable with the making the Christian Emperours the seventh Head. 1702H. Dodwell Apol. §14 in S. Parker Cicero's De Finibus b 4 b, This was thought to be the case of the Biothanatoi..which made it unagreeable to the Principles of Philosophy for any to imitate it.
Hence unaˈgreeableness.
1658Whole Duty Man xii. §8 That unagreeableness that was betwixt their practice, and their law. 1667Decay Chr. Piety xvi. ⁋2 A doctrine, whose unagreeableness to the gospel-œconomy rendred it suspicious. |