nunable (1301)

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nunable (1301)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: ; Gdf: ; GdfC: ; TL: ; DEAF: ; DMF: ; TLF: ; OED:  non-able a. (and s.); MED: ; DMLBS: ]
nounable,  nounhable  

The adverbial use seems ungrammatical, and a legitur as nounable[ment] may be called for. However, the regular adverbial form, either with or without the prefix, is not attested in the dictionary.

a.

1unsuitable, incompetent
( 1305 )  une persone noun able [...] qe fust simoniak e escomengé  33-35 Ed I 47
( 1392-93 )  le suppliant est noun hable et nyent souffisant [...] de servir notre Seignour le Roy en l'office [...]  99
2unable, powerless
( 1405 )  tout soi jeo povere et nounable et nounsuffisaunte de tielle charge supportier pur les grandes costaiges queux j'ay mys et susteignutz ceo en arrere  ii 31
3eccl.disqualified, ineligible
( 1301 )  inapt et nounable e indigne a chescune manere de benefice de eglise  150
lawdeprived of a legal right
( 1384 )  sibien les ravissours come les femmes [ravyes, et chescun de eux,] feusse desablé et et pur nounable tenuz a chalenger ou avoir aucun manere d'eritage  iii 174

adv.

1in an unsuitable, incompetent manner
( s.xiv-xv )  pur ceo q'ils ount vieu le dit artifice ad esté mesgoverné et le overaigne de mesme l'artifice ad esté nounduement et nounable overee al profit du roy et de son people  i 61
able  nientable  nunabilité 
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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