† unexpedientadj.
Obsolete.
= inexpedient adj.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > inexpediency > [adjective]
unexpedientc1449
discommendable?1537
unpolitic1548
politicless1556
disagreeing1568
impolitica1600
inexpedient1608
unpractical1638
unpolitical1643
unpractic1657
uncounsellablea1674
uneligible1690
unprosperable1690
impolitical1748
unadvisable1758
ineligible1779
inadvisable1782
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 163 For ellis the sacramentis of Crist weren vnleeful, vnexpedient, and vnprofitable.
?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth Prol. f. 4v Neuertheles: so to do it is vnbehouefull & vnexpedyent.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie xxiii. 134 For this kinde of speach were vnexpedient if to make images were..lawfull.
1643 F. Quarles Loyall Convert in Wks. (1880) I. 142/2 What is unexpedient in the one, is lawfull in the other.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 95 Others did condemne the present excommunication..as unexpedient.
a1768 T. Secker Serm. Several Subj. (1770) II. 180 For their Abuse doth not of Necessity make our Use of them unlawful, nor possibly sometimes unexpedient.
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