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unˈpracticable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
Impracticable. (Common 1650–1700.)
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §176 Such Objections..as rendered it [sc. the proposition] Ridiculous and Unpracticable. 1673Remarques Humours Town 52 They have made Love..unpracticable to the World. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. 16 Such unpracticable conditions as these. 1702Eng. Theophrast. 135 Many things that seem'd unpracticable to their Thoughts.
Hence unˈpracticableness.
1667Owen Indulg. & Tolerat. Consid. 30 The unpracticableness of such an Indulgence. 1680H. Dodwell Two Lett. (1691) 180 That unpracticableness wherewith they are changed. 1894N.W. Congregationalist (U.S.) 5 Jan., There is a certain amount of unpracticableness about this. |