† imprestableadj.
Obsolete. rare.
That cannot be performed or rendered.
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impossible1340
unfeasible1527
infeasible1533
unablec1540
unperformable1583
unpracticeable1588
unfeasable1628
uneffectible1646
unpracticable1650
unoperable1652
unaccomplishable1675
imprestable1683
imperformable1693
impracticable1696
unexecutable1794
ineffectible1806
inexecutable1833
unworkable1839
impractical1865
undoable1865
impos.1924
1683 Last Speech J. Wilson in Cloud Witnesses (1810) 225 Counting the cost and Seeing the cost of themselves imprestable.
1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. 60 (Jam.) Sending against us an armed host of barbarous savages..for inforcing of a most unnatural bond, wholly illegal in itself, and imprestable by us.
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