Unpracticable
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Not practicable.
"But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences."
Example
More examples"But so unpracticable is this design, that although sometimes conceived, it is never executed; the civil magistrate knows that it would be utterly destructive of human society; sublime as may be the ideal justice that it supposes, he sets it aside on the calculation of its bad consequences."
Etymology
From un- + practicable.
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