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impertinent(dictionary)
MATTER, IMPERTINENT, Equity pleading(law)

impertinent (iou)



impertinent adjective & noun. LME.
[Old & mod. French, or late Latin impertinent-, -ens not pertinent: see IM-2, PERTINENT adjective.]
A. adjective.
Not belonging (to); unconnected, unrelated. Long rare or obsolete. LME.
Coleridge The more distant, disjointed and impertinent to..any common purpose, will they appear.
Not pertaining to the matter in hand; irrelevant. Now rare exc. Law. LME.
J. S. Wharton The costs occasioned by any impertinent matter..to be paid by the party introducing it.
Out of place; inappropriate, incongruous; absurd. L16.
P. Barrough Many ignorant practitioners..have endeavoured to cure this infirmity with many impertinent medicines.
b. Of a person: absurd, silly. M17-E18.
Interfering in what does not concern one; presumptuous; insolent in speech or behaviour, esp. to a superior; lacking in proper respect. E17.
I. Murdoch People will ask questions, including impertinent ones about your sex life. A. Munro He would think it impertinent, for anybody to assume he is sad.
b. noun.
An impertinent or irrelevant matter. Only in E17.
An impertinent person. arch. M17.
W. P. Scargill Henry St. John..rebuked the young impertinents.
impertinently adverb LME.
impertinentness noun (long rare or obsolete) L17.