unmeet

From Middle English unmete, vnmete, unimete, from Old English unġemǣte, unmǣte (“immense, enormous; unsuitable”), equivalent to un- +‎ meet (“fit, right”).

unmeet (comparative more unmeet, superlative most unmeet)

1. (archaic) Not meet or proper.
   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] , (please specify |part=1 or 2), 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter […] .

   • 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     […] O, my father! / Prove you that any man with me convers'd / At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight / Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, / Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.

   • 1851, Grace Aguilar, The Vale of Cedars‎:

     Ferdinand himself gazed on her a moment astonished; then with animated courtesy hastily raised her, and playfully chid the movement as unmeet from a hostess to her guests.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “May-Day”, in May-Day and Other Pieces, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 14–15:

     Where shall we keep the holiday, / And duly greet the entering May? / Too strait and low our cottage doors, / And all unmeet our carpet floors; […]

   • 1900, Ernest Dowson, Amor Umbratilis‎:

     I cast my flowers away,
     Blossoms unmeet for you!

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather’s Neck‎:

     There were many hideous histories the colonel could have told you of, unmeet to be set down, and he was familiar with this talk of pelvic anomalies which were congenital.