a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b.] = INAPPLICABLE a.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., V. § 11. His Majesty … saw all those … either totally aliened from his service,… or, like men in a trance, unapplicable to it.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., IV. xii. § 7. The Ideas that demonstratively shew the equality or inequality of unapplicable Quantities.
1741. C. Middleton, Cicero, I. vi. 406. A consecration, legally performed, made the thing consecrated unapplicable ever after to any private use.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. 12. The Roman pandects will furnish us with a piece of history not unapplicable to our present purpose.
