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unceˈmented, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy 28 May, Wks. 1871 IV. 552 Parched pasture, amidst wall of huge uncemented stones grown rough with age. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 312 Some huge fragments of uncemented blocks. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. I. vi. §2 With all the joints, perhaps uncemented, or imperfectly filled up with cement, open to the sky.
b. transf. and fig.
1783Beattie Theory Lang. ii. iv. 480 This uncemented composition has of late become fashionable among the French and their imitators. 1792C. Smith Desmond II. 53 That, uncemented by blood, the noble and simply majestic temple of liberty will arise. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. xxxix. (1865) IV. 379 The state itself has seemed..to become a mere collection of uncemented atoms. 1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 412 Subdued, but warlike nations, uncemented into one with the conquering empire. |