inconformable, a.
(ɪnkənˈfɔːməb(ə)l)
[in-3.]
Not conformable; unconformable.
1. Not according in form, pattern, position, or character (to).
| 1612 Sturtevant Metallica (1854) 81 R. Define an inconformable inuention. A. An inuention.. whose Protoplast..cannot be conformed to any former inuention in use. 1665 J. Webb Stone-Heng (1725) 169 In Position not much inconformable to that in our Antiquity. 1670 Famous Conclave wherein Clement VIII was elected 24 There was nothing more detestable in a man, nor inconformable to a Christian, than ingratitude. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 34 To evince the antiquity of their Rights, which are in many things inconformable with the Roman. 1864 Bowen Logic xii. 413 So strong is our assurance of the universality of the principle..that, when an anomalous or inconformable instance actually arises, we seek at once for the means of eliminating it, or explaining it away. |
2. Of persons: Not disposed or wont to conform; of incompliant disposition or practice: esp., in Eng. Hist., Not conforming to the usages of the established Church.
| 1633 Ames Agst. Cerem. ii. 192 This calumniation concerning some inconformable suffered for a time. a 1662 Heylin Laud (1668) 201 Two of the Lecturers in that Diocess..they found obstinately inconformable to the Kings Directions. 1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Ch. Eng. I. xvi. 592 There are scarcely any inconformable or troublesome ministers noted in this report. |