| 单词 |
unconversable |
| 释义 |
unconˈversable, a.
Also -ible.
[un-1 7 b, 7, and 5 b.]
Unfit or unsuitable for social converse.
α1593Nashe Strange Newes Ep. Ded., I loue and admire thy pleasant wittie humor, which no care or crosse can make vnconuersable. 1681J. Scott Chr. Life i. iii. §3 In what a miserable state shall we be, when every Member of our Society shall be of the same unconversable Temper with our selves. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 79 What a rugged, tempestuous, unconversable mortal was Achilles. 1728Swift Let. to Carteret 18 Jan., If I had not been confined to my chamber by the continuance of my unconversable disorder [i.e. deafness]. 1803Lamb Let. to Manning in Final Mem. vii. 69 Among nasty, unconversable, horse-belching, Tartar-people.
β1674Govt. Tongue 158 Nothing rendering a man so unconversible [as pride]. 1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2302/2 The Ignorance or unconversible Humor of the Turks. 1736H. Walpole Lett. (1861) I. 9 Great mathematicians have been of great use, but the generality of them are quite unconversible.
Hence unconˈversableness.
1684H. More Answer 315 Contemptuousness, Malepertness against their Betters,..Unconversableness. 1702S. Parker tr. Cicero's De Finibus i. 45 The many..Dangers and Frights that go along with Unconversableness and Solitude. |
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