a. Now rare. [UN-1 7 b. Cf. UNPEACIBLE a.]
1. Not disposed to peace; contentious, turbulent.
c. 1520. M. Nisbet, Jas. iii. 8. Naman may chastice the toung, for it is ane vnpeceabile [Wyclif unpesible] euile.
1570. Drant, Serm., E vj b. What warres … hath this foule and vnpeaceable woman brought to passe?
1608. Dod & Cleaver, Expos. Prov. ix.–x. 86. If our hearts … begin to grow turbulent and unpeaceable.
1682. Sec. Plea Nonconf., 66. The Arrians were Calumniators of the Orthodox, and so are the Papists, and unpeaceable Lutherans.
1860. Ruskin, Unto this Last, i. (1862), 25. An unpeaceable and often irrational person.
2. Characterized by want of peace or quiet.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 101. The lord Scales and his company,… together in an vnpeaceable fury, set on their enemies.
1635. Brathwait, Arcad. Pr., 55. We … live both in these factious and unpeaceable times.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xviii. 165. Suttle and unpeaceable designes.
1702. Echard, Eccl. Hist., III. vi. 408. His scandalous, irregular and unpeaceable Practices.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch, V. 219. His unpeaceable and unsalutary conduct.
Hence Unpeaceableness. (Common c. 1655–c. 1690.)
c. 1475. Cath. Angl., 277/2. Vn Pesseabilnes, impaciencia,… inquietudo, proteruitas.
1651. Baxter, Inf. Bapt., 246. I would not have unpeaceableness and division to be encouraged.
1690. T. Burnet, Theory Earth, II. 193. The disorders of our passions,… and the unpeaceableness of the world.
