UNFITTED

UNFIT

disqualify, unfit, indispose

(verb) make unfit or unsuitable; “Your income disqualifies you”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

unfitted (comparative more unfitted, superlative most unfitted)

Not suited, not fit (for something).

(of a garment, not comparable) Not customized, tailored or cut to fit.

(rail, dated) Of trains, or wagons in the train, not having a through brake pipe, or brakes on the wagons that can be operated from the locomotive (the wagons did have handbrakes however).

Etymology 2

Verb

unfitted

simple past tense and past participle of unfit.

Source: Wiktionary


UNFIT

Un*fit", v. t. Etym: [1st pref. un- + fit.]

Definition: To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us for the society of holy beings.

Un*fit", a. Etym: [Pref. un- + fit.]

Definition: Not fit; unsuitable.

– Un*fit"ly, adv.

– Un*fit"ness, n.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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