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unˈtractable, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. = intractable a. 1. (Common c 1550–1800.)
1538Elyot, Insanus, madde, peuyshe,..vntractable. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xviii. 75 Yf he be so vntractable that he wyll not be moued neyther wyth shame, nor wyth feare of iudgemente. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 320 His horses..are become resty, furious, and untractable. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. xii. §4 (1622) 130 Pharaoh..was as stiffe, and as vntractable, as a rocke. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. viii. 409 Birds..of those kinds which with us are the most wild, and untractable. 1714R. Fiddes Pract. Disc. ii. 300 Persons of a base and untractable temper. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. v. II. 78 The untractable arrogance of Narvaez. 1818[see untameable a.]. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline III. 32 His followers..[were] more furious and untractable from the dreadful excesses they had committed.
2. = intractable a. 2.
1601Holland Pliny II. 118 Other hearbs, hideous to the eye, and untractable in hand. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon (1810) 5 Hills are untractable to tillage. 1667Milton P.L. x. 476 But I Toild out my uncouth passage, forc't to ride Th' untractable Abysse. 1743W. Emerson Fluxions 85 If you have an untractable Fluxion that will answer to none of the Forms. 1823Scott Quentin D. xxiv, He..wrung bitterly the hands, which his mail-gloves rendered untractable. 1837Whewell Hist. Ind. Sci. II. 177 There was room, among these hitherto untractable irregularities, for the additional results of the theory.
Hence unˈtractableness.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1605) T 3, The vntractablenesse of Papacy to it. a1600Hooker Serm. on Pride i. §9 Disobedience of children, stubbornes of servants, vntractablenesse in them, who..should..bee also subiect. 1690Locke Hum. Und. iv. xx. §5 In the Dulness or Untractableness of those Faculties for want of Use. 1752H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 432 Will they ever expect a peaceable prelate, if untractableness is thus punished? 1817Jas. Mill Brit. India II. iv. ii. 70 The untractableness of his own disposition. |