Inapplicable

Even in Christianity, beyond the priestly privilege which belongs to all believers, I object to the ministers of any denomination or church calling themselves or being called "priests;" and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of ❋ Ca. 337-ca. 422 Faxian (N/A)

"I had supposed the appellation inapplicable to a gentleman!" answered Sercombe, with entire coolness. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connection between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Inseparable accidents are those which — although we know of no connexion between them and the attributes constitutive of the species, and although, therefore, so far as we are aware, they might be absent without making the name inapplicable and the species a different species — are yet never in fact known to be absent. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Nor was the phrase inapplicable; for, in a letter, to which I have mislaid the reference, the Earl of Northumberland writes to the King and ❋ Walter Scott (1801)

“priests;” and much more is the name inapplicable to the sramanas or bhikshus of Buddhism which acknowledges no God in the universe, no soul in man, and has no services of sacrifice or prayer in its worship. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Las Casas found this definition inapplicable to the Indians but fit for the Spaniards, who unleashed “massacres” against the harmless indigenes. ❋ Russell Jacoby (2011)

Bound and measure are terms inapplicable to the Divine sacrifice. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some of the biz card is ridiculously 'inapplicable': imagine sticking one of those in your wallet =? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ergo, your principle is either applicable but misstated, or else, if accurately-stated, inapplicable, meaning that your problem must be something else. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

French magistrates have slammed the new legislation as "inapplicable", arguing that the definition of what constitutes an insult is too vague and verbal abuse too hard to prove. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Far worse, it asserted that in exercising that power, the President could not bound either by Congressional statutes prohibiting such use (such as the Posse Comitatus Act) or even by the Constitution's Fourth Amendment, which -- the Memo concluded -- was "inapplicable" to what it called "domestic military operations." ❋ Glenn Greenwal (2009)

Bruton rule is "inapplicable" in a non-jury trial. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"inapplicable" when authorisation is already found. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I am, after all, ingenious enough with language to have found words that interpret the clear provisions in the Lisbon Treaty prohibiting fiscal transfers as inapplicable to recent, er, fiscal transfers. ❋ Irwin Stelzer (2011)

They don't have to: the antitrust laws like the Clayton Act are inapplicable to them. ❋ Unknown (2009)