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uncomˈpounded, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not compounded; not made up of various elements; unmixed:
a. Of the Deity or his essence.
1587Golding De Mornay iv. 45 By these conclusions we come to another, which is, that God is not compounded. [marg.] God is single and vncompounded. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. xiii. lxxix. 326 Sufficeth vs to know he is..Vnpassiue, vnmateriall, vncompounded. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. x. §3 (1622) 304 His vncompounded simplicitie, is the true matter of his Vnitie. a1676Hales Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. (1677) 11 Though he is but one, and one most simple uncompounded Being. 1720Waterland Eight Serm. 200 The proof of the Father's being..one simple, uncompounded, undivided, intelligent Agent. a1751Bolingbroke Philos. Wks. 1754 V. 77 Various manifestations of the infinite wisdom of one simple uncompounded being. 1867Bp. Forbes Explan. 39 Art. i. 10 If God is absolutely, He is simple and uncompounded.
b. Of material things, their nature or qualities.
1615H. Crooke Body of Man i. xx. 32 Aristotle calleth them..Simple and vncompounded Parts, because they are not compounded of other parts. 1665Hooke Microgr. 1 We must endevour to follow Nature in the more plain and easie ways she treads in the most simple and uncompounded bodies. 1742H. Baker Microsc. i. Introd. 12 In the School of Nature we must begin with..the smallest and most uncompounded Parts. 1794Hutton Philos. Light, etc. 212 The antiphlogistic theory maintains, that sulphur and metals are simple substances, or to us uncompounded bodies. 1808J. Webster Nat. Philos. 171 The divisions of the uncompounded colours on the spectrum. 1875E. White Life in Christ i. viii. (1878) 72 That the soul of man is an uncompounded substance, or indivisible essence, has never been proved.
fig.a1633W. Austin Medit. (1635) 103 Alwaies, in secret, Men are most direct, plaine, and uncompounded: when (often) in publike they play the Hypocrites. 1703S. Centlivre Stolen Heiress iv, It was her single uncompounded self, her self without addition that I lov'd.
c. Of ideas, abstractions, etc.
1650Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Man bec. Guilty 115 Christian Eloquence is uncompounded. 1690Locke Hum. Und. ii. ii. §1 Those simple Ideas; which being each in itself uncompounded, contains in it nothing but one uniform Appearance. 1713Berkeley Hylas & Phil. i. Wks. 1871 I. 267 Fire affects you only with one simple, or uncompounded idea. 1785Reid Intell. Powers 234 To consider them as one uncompounded operation. 1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) IV. 16 The sensorial power in its simplest and uncompounded state. 1862Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. iii. 62 It is, however, rarely the case that a simple uncompounded word so well repays the labour of investigation.
d. Const. with.
a1633W. Austin Medit. (1635) 33 They were simple men, uncompounded with the world. 1803W. Blackburne in Med. Jrnl. X. 463 Accumulated human effluvia..uncompounded with limose or paludous gas.
†2. = uncomposed ppl. a. 3. Obs.
1659Rushworth Hist. Coll. I. 2 To keep his Majesty from declaring himself opposite to Spain in the business of Cleves and Juliers, which still remained uncompounded.
Hence uncomˈpoundedly adv.; -ness.
1628T. Spencer Logick 163 It is a simple Axiome: because one thing barely, and *vncompoundedly, is referred to another. 1683[see unclothedly adv.].
1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. xxi. 136 The description of it [sc. marl] is not so much in Colour..as in the Purity and *uncompoundedness of it. 1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVIII. 751 There is a oneness, a wholeness, an uncompoundedness of character in these elect instruments. |