† 1. Improper for legal pleadings. Obs.–1
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 85 b. The yeere diuided in XII monethes with the varietie of pleadable and unpleadable dayes.
2. Incapable of being pleaded or urged.
a. 1716. South, Serm. (1744), VII. 202. All ignorance, that is merely negative…, is utterly inconsistent with [this], and makes [it] absolutely unpleadable.
1869. Browning, Ring & Bk., IX. 1443. A flight … unpleadable in court!
