1. = INDISPENSABLE a. 2.
1559. Bp. Cox, in Strype, Ann. Ref. (1709), I. App. xxii. 51. Your Majesty’s learned and godly clergy … do think this commandment of God to be undispensable.
a. 1600. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., VII. xiv. § 4. Things whereunto everlasting, immutable, and undispensable observation did belong.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxviii. 164. The Punishment of the transgression of a Law undispensable.
1672. H. More, Brief Reply, Pref. a 3. This … could never affright me into the neglect of so undispensable a duty.
2. = INDISPENSABLE a. 1.
1609. Bible (Douay), Gen. xvi. comm. The Catholique doctrin … showeth how pluralitie of wives was … especially since Christ altogether unlawful and undispensable.
1649. Milton, Eikon., ix. 84. He was bound … by a most strict and undispensable Oath to preserve that Order.
3. = INDISPENSABLE a. 3.
1658. T. Wall, Charact. Enemies Ch., 27. Religion being … the undispensable prop of States.
So Undispensably adv. Obs.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., I. iii. (1677), 81. Some determinate ubi or situs … is undispensably necessary to every created individual Body.
