unchaˈstisable, a.
Also 6 Sc. vnchestiable.
(un-1 7 b.)
| 1382 Wyclif Ezek. ii. 4 The sones ben of hard face, and of herte vnchaastisable,..to whom I sende thee. c 1430 Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 57 A chield to thryve that is unchastisable,..It may wele ryme, but it accordith nought. [c 1580 Maitland Folio MS. (S.T.S.) lv. 36 A chyld to thryff quhilk is vnchestiable.] 1645 Milton Tetrach. Wks. 1851 IV. 194 The hard hearts of others unchastisable in those judicial Courts, were so remitted there, as bound over to the higher Session of Conscience. |