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  1.  Incapable of being received.

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1611.  Cotgr., Inadmissible, vnadmittable, vnreceiuable, vnacceptable.

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1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), V. 132. There is a receipt … whereby any man … may render his testimony unreceivable.

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1877.  M. Arnold, Last Ess. on Ch., p. xxx. Those who had thrown it aside because what was presented to them under its name was so unreceivable.

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  † 2.  Unfit to receive one. Obs.–1

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 118. If that Kingdome haue a purgatory, so a conspiracie of … scalding sand, the burning Sun, and vnreceiueable Cottages, can make one.

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