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Definition of Ineligible

1. Adjective. Not eligible. "Ineligible for retirement benefits"

2. Adjective. Prohibited by official rules. "An ineligible pass receiver"

Definition of Ineligible

1. a. Not eligible; not qualified to be chosen for an office; not worthy to be chosen or preferred; not expedient or desirable.

Definition of Ineligible

1. Adjective. Not eligible. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ineligible

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ineligible

inelaborate inelastic inelastically inelasticities inelasticity inelative inelative case inelegance inelegances inelegancies

inelegancy inelegant inelegantly ineligibilities ineligibility ineligible (current term) ineligibles ineligibly ineliminable ineloquence

ineloquent ineloquently ineluctability ineluctable ineluctably ineludible inembryonate inenarrable inenubilable inenumerable

Literary usage of Ineligible

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"... refused to appoint him, on the ground that he had already attended Clem- son College, and was therefore ineligible under the terms of the statute. ..."

2. The Law of Suffrage and Elections: Being a Compendium of Cases and Decisions by M. D. Naar (1880)
"ineligible CANDIDATES. The authorities are somewhat in conflict as to the effect to be given, in determining the result of an election, to votes cast for an ..."

3. Jewish Code of Jurisprudence: Talmudical Law Decisions, Civil, Criminal and by Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Jacob Louis Kadushin (1915)
"WITNESS ineligible ON ACCOUNT OF RELATIONSHIP. 1. Everyone who is eligible to be a judge is ineligible to testify, except a friend or an enemy may be ..."

4. The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great by Edward McPherson (1864)
"1862, March 13—Mr. WILSON gave notice of a bill declaring certain persons ineligible to office. June 4—The House passed a bill declaring certain persons ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Public Corporations, Including Municipal by Charles Fisk Beach (1893)
"Votes for ineligible candidates.— It is the rule in England that if an ineligible ... It is considered that in such a case the votes for the ineligible ..."

6. The Constitution of the State of California: Adopted in Convention, at by California, Edward Francis Treadwell (1902)
"Member ineligible to office created during the term. § 20. Who ineligible to office under state government—Proviso. § 21. ..."

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