Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient: as, inhabile matter.
- Unskilled; unready; unqualified: used of persons.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not apt or fit; unfit; not convenient; inappropriate; unsuitable.
- adjective obsolete Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of persons.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
apt orfit ;inappropriate ;unsuitable . - adjective obsolete
Unskilled ;unready ;awkward ;incompetent .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The copies of these examinations, made up of extorted confessions, or the evidence of inhabile witnesses, were all that were transmitted to the Privy Council, who were to direct the future mode of procedure.
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The copies of these examinations, made up of extorted confessions, or the evidence of inhabile witnesses, were all that were transmitted to the Privy Council, who were to direct the future mode of procedure.
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Walter Scott 1801
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•d aa» fmegadaai destinatnm ope aceti ad infra examinabimus paaeia, sad latius in alios quoicwque usos fedt inhabile.
Doctrina nvmorvm vetervm conscripta a Josepho Eckhel .. Joseph Hilarius von Eckhel, Anton von Steinbüchel, Aubin Louis Millin, Emerich Thomas Hohler 1792
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