† undispensableadj.
Obsolete.
1. = indispensable adj. 2.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [adjective] > perpetually binding
undispensable1559
intransgressible1603
indispensable1653
indispensible1662
dispenseless1721
uninfringeable1743
1559 Bp. Cox in J. Strype Ann. Reformation (1709) I. App. xxii. 51 Your Majesty's learned and godly clergy..do think this commandment of God to be undispensable.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xiv, in Wks. (1662) 34 Things whereunto everlasting, immutable, and undispensable observation did belong.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxviii. 164 The Punishment of the transgression of a Law undispensable.
1672 H. More Brief Reply Pref. sig. a3 This..could never affright me into the neglect of so undispensable a duty.
2. = indispensable adj. 1.
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society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [adjective] > not subject to dispensation
undispensable1609
1609 Bible (Douay) I. Gen. xvi. comm. The Catholique doctrin..sheweth how pluralitie of wives was..especially since Christ altogether unlawful and undispensable.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης ix. 84 He was bound..by a most strict and undispensable Oath to preserve that Order.
3. = indispensable adj. 3.
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [adjective]
needfulOE
necessaryc1376
needfulc1390
necessairea1393
needfula1402
necessariousc1410
requisite1442
unlackablec1443
unsparablec1449
necessc1475
requise1477
needy1487
exigentc1508
of necessityc1515
essential1526
insacrificablea1603
peremptory1607
unspared1614
sine qua non1615
real1620
necessitous1637
needsomec1650
undispensable1658
vital1659
wanting1671
implemental1676
sine quo non1693
indispensable1696
indispensible1792
vital1822
unmissable1823
of the essence (of)1843
1658 T. Wall Comment on Times (new ed.) 27 Religion being..the undispensable prop of States.
Derivatives
Obsolete.† undiˈspensably adv. Obsolete
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the mind > will > necessity > condition of being necessary > [adverb]
necessarilyc1443
unlackablyc1449
requisitely1565
undispensablya1676
indispensably1694
essentially1757
indispensibly1768
vitally1770
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iii. 81 Some determinate ubi or situs..is undispensably necessary to every created individual Body.
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