Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not executable; incapable of being executed, performed, or enforced.
Wiktionary
- adj. That cannot be executed or carried out.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.
Etymologies
- in- + executable (Wiktionary)
Examples
“All I got from them since the last election are agreeable dummies and stupid inexecutable ideas.”
“Our troops might have perished of cold had the Continental System, and the absurd mass of inexecutable decrees relative to English merchandise, been observed.”
“Continental system and the absurd mass of inexecutable decrees relative to English merchandise been observed.”
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
“Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn - gallows, as the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.”
“Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn Gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.”
“Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable, -- yes, that gallows-tree has been a fingerpost into very strange country indeed.”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“Oliver Cromwell, whose body they hung on their Tyburn gallows because he had found the Christian Religion inexecutable in this country, remains to me by far the remarkablest Governor we have had here for the last five centuries or so.”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“Oliver Cromwell's body hung on the Tyburn gallows, the type of Puritanism found futile, inexecutable, execrable.”
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.
“The King has accepted this Constitution, knowing beforehand that it will not serve: he studies it, and executes it in the hope mainly that it will be found inexecutable.”
“Better to adopt that Constitution of theirs; execute it so as to shew all men that it is inexecutable?”
Lists
‘inexecutable’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
Tweets
Looking for tweets for inexecutable.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.