a. Obs. [UN-1 7 b.] Unescapable.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. xvii. 16. Vnscapable, or that myȝt not be fled, nede he suffrede.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., V. vi. 514. The synne is as it were vnscapeable and vnavoidable of him. Ibid. (c. 1455), Folewer, 95. Þis vnscapable peruertid doom.
1554. Knox, Faythf. Admon., G 5. To instructe vs that lyuelye fayth … is able to carye vs thorowe such parelles as be unscapable to nature.
Hence † Unscapably adv. Obs.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. v. 308. If eny man be in contrarie wise vndisposid vnscapabili. Ibid., V. vi. 516. Ibid. (c. 1455), Folewer, 95. Þe doom of resoun is derkid ful oft … vnscapabli bi passions of þe louȝer wittis.
