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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
Inlegibill, -legeable, a. [Cf. e.m.E. illegible (1640).] Illegible, undecipherable. — c1590 J. Stewart 3/8.
The inept orthographie and inlegihill scribling of my imprompt pen 1615 P. Gordon Pref. Brus.
It was an old tome, almost inlegeable in manie places
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