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impracticable(dictionary)
impracticable(dictionary)

Atenism (iou) and impracticable (iou)


Atenism (iou)



Atenism noun. E20.
[from Aten from Egyptian itn a name of the sun(-god): see -ISM.]
Hist. The worship of the sun in ancient Egypt, esp. in the reign of Amenophis IV (Akhnaten) in the 14th cent. BC.

impracticable (iou)



impracticable adjective & noun. M17.
[from IM-2 + PRACTICABLE.]
A. adjective.
Not practicable; unable to be carried out or done; impossible in practice. M17.
J. F. Lehmann In the end the scheme was abandoned as impracticable.
a. Of a road etc.: impassable. M17.
G. Grote The pass appeared impracticable.
b. Of a person or thing: unmanageable, intractable. E18.
B. H. Malkin One of those impracticable beings, on whom good example, good advice..are equally thrown away.
b. noun. An impracticable person. rare. E19.
impractica'bility noun (a) the quality or condition of being impracticable; (b) an impracticable thing: M18.
impracticableness noun M17.
impracticably adverb L18.