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unaˈllowable, a.
[un-1 7 b.]
Not allowable; inadmissible, impermissible.
1560J. Daus Sleidane's Comm. ij b, He neyther bringeth Scripture for hym, nor any thinge out of the auncient Doctours, but certein dreames of his owne, receiued of scoolemen by an vnallowable euill custome. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 134 If we shall goe about to performe those..vnallowable othes, then shal we..incurre the heauie wrath of the reuenging Lorde. 1645Milton Tetrach. To Parlt. A 2 b, It can be no immoderate, or unallowable course of seeking so.. needfull reparations. a1678H. Scougal Disc. Imp. Subj. (1735) 268 An unallowable patience in hearing his master dishonoured. 1726Butler Serm. Pref., It is very unallowable for a work of imagination or entertainment not to be of easy comprehension. 1799Monthly Rev. XXVIII. 526 The inferences deduced from them would still be unallowable. 1842De Morgan Diff. & Int. Calc. 384 An infinite number of unallowable points. 1867Macfarren Harmony ii. 40 Whatever is unallowable for all the notes is, of course, forbidden for each particular one. |