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inefficacious, a.|ɪnɛfɪˈkeɪʃəs|
[f. in-3 + efficacious: repr. L. inefficāx, -cācem, F. inefficace.]
Of a remedy, treatment, course of action, etc.: Not efficacious; without efficacy.
1658Manton Exp. Jude verse 5 Wks. 1871 V. 178 The devils assent..is not a naked and inefficacious assent, but such as causeth horror and tremblings. 1769Town & Country Mag. Sept. 473/1 His remedy proved inefficacious. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 135/2 The precaution..is quite inefficacious. 1875Poste Gaius iii. (ed. 2) 387 It did not inevitably follow that his contract was inefficacious. |