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uncomˈposed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not composed or made up; not composite.
1570Billingsley Euclid vii. def. xii. 186 Numbers vncomposed, haue no part to measure them, but onely vnitie. 1644Digby Nat. Soul i. §3. 358 We can not diuide the actions of mans mind, further then into apprehensions; and therefore we called them simple and vncomposed.
2. Not put together in proper form.
1598Florio, Discomposto, vncomposed, shapelesse, formelesse. c1610Women Saints 189, I haue sett downe her life in playne and vncomposed wordes. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty ii. 17 Variety uncomposed, and without design, is confusion and deformity. 1838Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 140 Scott's Biography if uncomposed, lies..here, in the elementary state, and can at any time be composed, if necessary.
3. Not reduced to an orderly or tranquil state; disordered, excited.
1601B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. (Qo.) v. i. 526 It is a vertue that persues Any saue rude and vncomposed spirites. 1639Bp. Reynolds Lord's Supper xviii, Sudden, uncomposed, & uncollected thoughts. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues 205 The Scum of an empty Mind, the very froth of an unsetled and uncomposed Spirit.
b. Unregulated; disorderly.
1631R. Brathwait Whimzies, Traveller 93 Not an irregular haire about him, nor an unset looke to attend him, nor an uncomposed cringe to accoutre him. 1649Alcoran 411 The uncomposed gestures of the drunkard.
4. Not brought into a state of concord.
1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars v. 133 In his Letters to the Governess, the Emperour promised her his endeavours, if any thing was yet uncomposed. 1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 87 Whilst the Catholicks have no jars undecided, no differences uncomposed. |