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unˈfeasible, a. (un-1 7 and 5 b.)
1527St. Papers Hen. VIII, I. 247 As the discripcion..shulde be to tedious..to rede, so the explicacion therof shulde be unfaysible unto me. 1648J. Beaumont Psyche xviii. ccxix, But seeing this unfeasible, the sight Redoubled her compassionate sorrows weight. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 145 This Logick would make almost all Mechanicks to be impossible, if what ever you cannot do must straight be unfecible. 1673O. Walker Educ. (1677) 37 Harshnes is discovered in..enjoyning things in themselves too difficult, unfesible, unsupportable. 1804Colebrooke Husb. Bengal 35 Circumstances that render it unfeasible to enter these fields to select the ripe plants, without damaging the rest. 1886Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 June 1142/2 The use..is doubtless charming in theory,..but, in practice, it is unfeasible. Hence unˈfeasibleness.
1653Holcroft Procopius, Pers. Wars ii. 42 Seeing excessive undertakings ever are rewarded with unfaisibleness.
Add: unˈfeasibly adv.
1934Webster, Unfeasibly. 1981Summary of World Broadcasts: Far East (B.B.C.) 15 Apr. BII. 8 We..must no longer make any impracticable predictions, put forward any impracticable slogans or set any unfeasibly high targets. |