a. (UN-1 7 b.)
1741. A. Hill, Lett. to Mallet, 21 Dec., Wks. 1754, II. 1745. For after subliming away the volatile nothings, and throwing out upon the dunghill, it deserves, the almost unliftable caput mortuum, that lies heavy and big, at the bottom.
[1775. Ash.]
1818. Art Preserv. Feet, 93. Facts not of sufficient importance to form the basis of a huge unliftable quarto.
1854. Ferrier, Inst. Metaph., 59. Suppose he were to call the latter the unliftable, the imponderable without any qualification.