Definitionadj. lacking the power to produce a desired effect
Last update: October 21, 2015
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In the fifth of his early essays he asserted that the method a priori is the only mode of investigation in the social sciences, and that the method a posteriori "is altogether inefficacious in those sciences as a means of arriving at any considerable body of valuable truth." [Please select]
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The earliest English treaty with Tunis was dated 1662; many more followed, and all were about equally inefficacious. [Please select]
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It must, therefore, not be inflicted when it is 'groundless,' 'inefficacious,' 'unprofitable,' or 'needless.' [Please select]
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In the latter, the exclusion would be inefficacious for the only end it could be intended for, viz. [Please select]
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EPSOM SALTS are inefficacious, except in the immense dose of a pound and a half, and then they are not always safe. [Please select]
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Imperfectly mixed coal-tar-creosote dips are liable to poison animals even when not used in stronger solutions than that recommended by the manufacturers, and are also likely to be inefficacious. [Please select]
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