a. (UN-1 7.)
1626. Bp. H. King, Serm. Deliverance, 63. Salubrity of Aire is His Gift; shift of Places, smells to prepossesse the Senses, but for Him had been vnbeneficiall.
1687. Norris, Coll. Misc. (1699), 125. That it becomes unbeneficial to him [sc. God] … is purely by accident.
1718. Entertainer, No. 24. 162. If duly apply’d, it may be, not unbeneficial.
1828. P. Cunningham, N. S. Wales (ed. 3), II. 70. It would admit an exchange among ourselves beneficially, instead of an unbeneficial exchange with distant parts.
1839. Palmerston, in G. H. Francis, Opin. & Pol. (1852), 418. We shall be doing that which will not be unbeneficial or unacceptable to some of those persons.
