INELIGIBILITY • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Ineligibility

... the hill before he had been in the community twenty-four hours, which is a polite way these free-and-easy young people have of turning out of town an obnoxious individual. Not that the Squire is particularly objectionable per se, but in virtue of his office, and his supposed ineligibility to fill the same. Besides, the people here wish to have the fun of ruling themselves. Miners are as fond of playing at law making and dispensing as French novelists are of "playing at Providence." They say, also, that he was not elected by the voice of the people, but that his personal friends ...

— The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 • Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe