unagreeableadj.

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) i. met. i. 4 But now..myn vnpitouse lijf draweþ a-long vnagreable dwellynges in me.

a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) i. clxiv. f. clxxiii/1 In all maner of her dedes she was vnagreable to god.

1547 Sir W. Paget in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) II. vii. 57 Then shall it be well don..to send an express man, not unagreeable to any of both the parts.

1683 J. Lead in J. Pordage Theologia Mystica To Rdr. 5 His Soul, which then groaned to be set loose from so unagreeable a Bodie.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. ix. 483 We are now entering upon a time, the representation..whereof, must needs be the most unpleasant..to the Reader..and the most unagreeable and difficult to the Writer.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Box The Excellency of its Wood makes amends for its unagreeable Smell.

1808 J. Austen Let. 26 June (1995) 134 M^r M. was not un-agreable, tho' nothing seemed to go right with him.

1866 London Rev. 5 May 499/2 There is another class of persons who..are what one might call (if there were such a word in the English language) ‘unagreeable’ people.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst 57 Here, how inconstaunt, unagreable, and contraryouse he is also to hymselfe.

1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxxvii. f. 91 Thinking it better..to haue a wife vnagreable to his estate, then to suffer hym to die for her sake.

1580 E. Knight Triall of Truth f. 12 The millers hackney vnagreeable with the true rules and accident of armes.

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 151 Least any abject thing or unworthie may be objected against us unagreable with our blood and qualitie.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 256 Let us try Adventrous work, yet to thy power and mine Not unagreeable . View more context for this quotation

1684 S. E. Answer Remarks upon Dr. H. More 42 Also it is unagreeable with the making the Christian Emperours the seventh Head.

1702 H. Dodwell Apol. in S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus sig. b4^v This was thought to be the case of the Biothanatoi..which made it unagreeable to the Principles of Philosophy for any to imitate it.

1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man xii. §8. 247 That unagreeableness that was betwixt their practice, and their law.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xvi. 368 A doctrine, whose unagreeableness to the Gospel Oeconomy rendred it suspicious.