a. (UN-1 7 b.)
a. 1660. Hammond, Serm., Wks. 1684, IV. 577. The principal faculty which is irrecoverably wanting in such, and by all teaching irreparable and unimproveable, is the power of numbring.
a. 1683. Oldham, Art of Poetry, Wks. (1684), II. 14. At first dash, as it before ’twere known, [he] Embarques you in the middle of the Plot And what is unimprovable leaves out.
1785. G. A. Bellamy, Apol. (ed. 3), III. 52. The ’Squire, however, remained totally unimprovable.
1790. Act 30 Geo. III., c. 50. To sell or alienate Fee Farm, and other unimproveable Rents.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xv. You show an absolute and unimprovable acquaintance with … mankind in general.
1847. Grote, Greece, xxiv. III. 548. A people the most unprincipled and unimproveable of all.
Hence Unimprovableness.
1654. Hammond, Fundam., xvi. 174. This must be imputed … to their ignorance and unimprovableness in matters of knowledge.
