a. [UN-1 7 b.] Not in accordance with, contrary to, a statute or statutes.
1634. Laud, Wks. (1857), VI. 388. That they use not long, undecent hair,… nor any other like unstatutable novelty.
1691. Case of Exeter Coll., 22. These severe and unstatutable proceedings.
1723. Swift, Argts. agst. Power Bps., Wks. 1841, II. 218/2. In the present bishop of Meath’s case that plea did not avail, although the lease were notoriously unstatutable.
1794. Burke, Corr., IV. 237. A deputation to remonstrate against an unstatutable arrangement proposed for the succession to the provostship.
1851. J. B. Mozley, Lett., 208. The President has summarily squashed the whole scheme, on the ground of being unstatutable.
Hence Unstatutably adv.
1688. in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II. (O.H.S.), 224. The one being unstatutably admitted.
1721. N. Amherst, Terræ Fil., No. 27 (1726), 147. That he governs his college arbitrarily, unjustly, and unstatutably.
1876. Encycl. Brit., V. 228/2. The establishment of ‘vicars,’ or, as they are now more usually but unstatutably called, ‘minor canons.’
