Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not executable; incapable of being executed, performed, or enforced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of being executed or performed; impracticable; infeasible.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That cannot be
executed or carried out.
Etymologies
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Examples
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All I got from them since the last election are agreeable dummies and stupid inexecutable ideas.
fengh Diary Entry fengh 2002
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Our troops might have perished of cold had the Continental System, and the absurd mass of inexecutable decrees relative to English merchandise, been observed.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Our troops might have perished of cold had the Continental System, and the absurd mass of inexecutable decrees relative to English merchandise, been observed.
THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON DAVID G. CHANDLER 1966
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Continental system and the absurd mass of inexecutable decrees relative to English merchandise been observed.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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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 1838
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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. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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