unreceivableadj.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Inadmissible, vnadmittable, vnreceiuable, vnacceptable.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xxvii. 152 Gustave..was willing to restore him to the Palatinat, but under hard, and unreceiuable conditions.

1697 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 784 The act of parliament discharging compensations to be received..makes no distinction when it was acquired..and the Lords have found even compensation unreceivable in the second instance.

1749 J. Cleland Case of Unfortunate B. Penlez 37 The Evidence..against him might be, and it is hardly a Brech of Charity to say it was, equally false and unreceivable.

1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iii. v. 132 Here is a receipt..whereby any man..may render his testimony unreceivable.

1877 M. Arnold Last Ess. on Church & Relig. p. xxx Those who had thrown it aside because what was presented to them under its name was so unreceivable.

1900 Ann. Rep. War Dept. 1899 (U.S. War Dept.) I. vi. 509 This movement would strip the island of copper coin, but as nearly all here in circulation are punched, and therefore unreceivable in Spain, there is little likelihood of any extensive shipment.

1909 Pop. Electr. Dec. 530/1 When we find a commercial or government station sending or receiving don't ‘butt in’ with a lot of unreceivable signals and interrupt them.

1978 United Nations Juridical Yearbk. v. 136 The Tribunal should reject the application as unreceivable under article 7 of its Statute.

2007 Western Morning News (Nexis) 3 July 11 The two BT engineers who called listed other South East Cornwall villages where broadband is unreceivable.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 118 If that Kingdome haue a purgatory, so a conspiracie of..scalding sand, the burning Sun, and vn-receiueable Cottages, can make [etc.].