unsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsuits
form: unsuiting
form: unsuited
form: unsuited
Etymology: From un- + suit.
Senses: examples: text: Cardinal Cullen, in his evidence before the Educational Committee, given in their report of 1870, frankly stated his opinion that education should be limited to "the three R's, the reading of the Scriptures, and the history of the Church. Too much education would make the poor discontented with their lot, and unsuit them for following the plough, using the spade, hammering iron, and building walls."
ref: 1880 February 2, John Jay, “The Roman Catholic Question”, in The International Review, volume 8, page 292:
text: It is a sunny, cheerful tree, full of glorious vitality, and always beautiful, though it may have faults that unsuit it for some places.
ref: 1881, Frank Jesup Scott, The Art of Beautifying Suburban Home Grounds of Small Extent-, page 388:
text: Being too tall would unsuit the person concerned from, say, being a bus-conductor in a situation where most buses have low ceilings!
ref: 1973, Tai Wei Tan, Our Social Framework and Its Ethical Basis, page 62:
text: I swear the country's got warmer since the Great War. It makes men lazy, it makes them incompetent. It unsuits them to empire.
ref: 1994, Louis De Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin:
text: For example, the way that the straight part of the spring is modified to serve as a rudimentary hammer in the two-part mousetrap (figure 4.3) unsuits it to engaging the hammer in the three-part mousetrap (figure 4.4).
ref: 2004, Angus J. L. Menuge, Agents Under Fire: Materialism and the Rationality of Science, page 112:
glosses: To cause to fail to suit; to make (something or someone) unfit.
examples: text: The unsuiting and suiting up procedure was time-consuming and there was a risk of upsetting switches in the process, and he saw little point in taking off his suit now because they would require to suit up for the rendezvous.·
ref: 2004, David Michael Harland, How NASA Learned to Fly in Space: An Exciting Account of the Gemini Missions, page 115:
text: Drooble also unsuits, more slowly than his Captain, and follows him as he stomps impatiently towards the bridge.
ref: 2009, Neal Asher ·, Orbus: Spatterjay 3:
text: Nothing untoward happens to him, so he unsuits.
ref: 2011, Ian Watson, The Butterflies of Memory:
text: Everyone mount up. Erin, you'll need to unsuit. I'll give you a hand if you need it.
ref: 2016, Timothy Zahn, StarCraft: Evolution:
glosses: To take off a suit.
examples: text: It is now the settled law that the burden of proof is upon the railway administration who seeks to unsuit the plaintiff on the ground of limitation, to establish that the loss occurred beyond one year from the date of institution of the suit.
ref: 1970, Charles Dickenson Field, T. L. Venkatarama Aiyar, C. D. Field's Law of Evidence, in India and Pakistan:
text: I do not think, however, that there can be a reasonable doubt in anyone's mind as to who the real parties are before this court despite the extremely shoddy pleadings, and I am not disposed to unsuit the real applicants on this somewhat tenuous basis (Makka v Meat Master NHK 11/2/298 unreported.)
ref: 1991, Industrial law journal: including the industrial law reports, page 163:
text: I will not unsuit this child if liability is made out against the hospital and Dr. Balnick. I will not unsuit this child in regard to what is already apparent, namely she will require careful, expensive medical treatment for the rest of her life.
ref: 2010, Kenneth Zarecor, A Darkness of Her Own, page 191:
glosses: To dismiss the legal suit of (a plaintiff)