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† unexˈpedient, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
= inexpedient a.
c1449Pecock Repr. ii. v. 163 For ellis the sacramentis of Crist weren vnleeful, vnexpedient, and vnprofitable. c1520Barclay Jugurth (1557) A ij b, Neuertheles so to do it is vnbehouefull and vnexpediente. 1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xxiii. 134 For this kinde of speach were vnexpedient if to make images were..lawfull. 1643Quarles Loyall Convert Wks. (Grosart) I. 142/2 What is unexpedient in the one, is lawfull in the other. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. ii. §25 Others did condemne the present excommunication..as unexpedient. a1768Secker Serm. (1770) II. 180 For their Abuse doth not of Necessity make our Use of them unlawful, nor possibly sometimes unexpedient. |