a. Obs. [UN-1 7.] Unprofitable; of no avail.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter cxxviii. 4. When þei … seme vnspedful in all þat þei did here.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., V. pr. vi. (1868), 178. Prayeres, þat ne mowen nat ben vnspedful … whan þei ben ryȝtful.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 184. Ȝif þis handy! be wrong, it is vnspedefull to werke wyth.
1482. Monk of Evesham (Arb.), 29. Thy contynual prayer … may not be onspedeful before the presens and goodnes of god.
1570. Levins, Manip., 186. Vnspeedful, inexpeditus.
