| 单词 |
incompetible |
| 释义 |
† incomˈpetible, a. Obs.
[f. in-3 + competible.]
Not competible; not within one's competence or capacity; not properly applicable or suitable to; inappropriate. Sometimes confused with incompatible: see the latter, 2 c.
1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ iii. 415 Puffed vp with incomparable and incompetible Titles of Learning. 1641Milton Prel. Episc. 5 For now the Pope was come to that height, as to arrogate to himselfe by his Vicars incompetible honours. 1650Exercit. Usurped Powers 9 Take him as a usurper, and my allegiance is incompetible to him. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. (1712) 186 Indivisibility is incompetible to a Spirit. 1684Burnet The. Earth ii. 139 The characters of the New Jerusalem..are very hard to be understood: some of them being incompetible to a terrestrial state, and some of them to a celestial.
Hence † incomˈpetibleness = incompetibility. (Confused with incompatibleness.)
1727Bailey vol. II, Incompetibleness, the Condition of a Thing, that will not square or agree with another. |
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