a. (UN-1 7 b.)
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies, Essex, I. (1662), 347. Winchester Castle was … ordered to be made Untenable; but the over-officious malice of such who executed the Order (wilfully mistaking the word) made it Untenantable.
1772. Ann. Reg., Chron., 141/1. 400 houses … destroyed, or rendered untenantable.
1774. Phil. Trans., LXV. 274. They may so abound with fleas as to become untenantable.
1833. Whewell, Astron., vii. 64. The apparently frozen and untenantable regions in the neighbourhood of the pole.
1862. Galton, Vac. Tour., 208. Beds untenantable, charges unconscionable, is the state of things now as then.
