† undiˈspensable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
1. = indispensable a. 2.
| 1559 Bp. Cox in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. App. xxii. 51 Your Majesty's learned and godly clergy..do think this commandment of God to be undispensable. a 1600 Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xiv. §4 Things whereunto everlasting, immutable, and undispensable observation did belong. 1651 Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxviii. 164 The Punishment of the transgression of a Law undispensable. 1672 H. More Brief Reply Pref. a 3 This..could never affright me into the neglect of so undispensable a duty. |
2. = indispensable a. 1.
| 1609 Bible (Douay) Gen. xvi. comm., The Catholique doctrin..sheweth how pluralitie of wives was..especially since Christ altogether unlawful and undispensable. 1649 Milton Eikon. ix. 84 He was bound..by a most strict and undispensable Oath to preserve that Order. |
3. = indispensable a. 3.
| 1658 T. Wall Charact. Enemies Ch. 27 Religion being..the undispensable prop of States. |
So † undiˈspensably adv. Obs.
| a 1676 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. iii. (1677) 81 Some determinate ubi or situs..is undispensably necessary to every created individual Body. |