Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not accessible; not attainable; beyond reach or comprehension.
Wiktionary
- adj. That cannot be come at; unreachable, inaccessible, unattackable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. Not to be come at, or reached; inaccessible.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. difficult to reach or attain
Etymologies
- un- + come at + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This Divito [182] is the most skilful of all politicians: he has a perfect art in being unintelligible in discourse, and uncomeatable in business.”
“Inaccessible" had been in use at least for two centuries, and it is very common at the present time -- "uncomeatable" is still taboo in literary circles, but not unusual in familiar parlance. name as author, and is printed in Franklin's Works (1).”
“Dr. Donne was mentioned as a writer of the same period, with a very interesting countenance, whose history was singular, and whose meaning was often quite as uncomeatable, without a personal citation from the dead, as that of any of his contemporaries.”
“The most incompatible, the most unamalgamatible, and the most uncomeatable qualities that ever refused to unite in the same individual, had no scruple at all to unite in Phil.”
“_Tatler_ as Divito, who has a perfect art in being unintelligible in discourse and uncomeatable in business.”
“I won't trust my honour, I assure you; my honour is infallible and uncomeatable.”
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