a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1771. E. Long, Trial of Dog ‘Porter,’ in Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 209. Laws to which he was unamenable.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 599. Superior and unamenable power.
1868. Visct. Strangford, Select. (1869), II. 251. Tibet, Afghanistan, and all Indian frontier countries are classed in the same category as unamenable to civilised laws.
1877. Sir H. Taylor, Autobiog. (1885), I. 139. The good easy Chancellor of the Exchequer was overruled by the stout and unamenable Secretary.
