inoperative

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Inoperative as this remained, it at least had the advantage of supplying to the Spanish historians an unbroken line of inquisitors-general to be catalogued.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

It gleams A happy mirage in a sunny brain; But as a principle, is oft, I fear, Inoperative.

From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard

Inoperative, in-op′ėr-a-tiv, adj. not in action: producing no effect.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various