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† unconˈcluding, ppl. a. Obs. [un-1 10 and 5 b.] Inconclusive.
a1643Ld. Falkland, etc. Infallibility (1646) 200 You are to wise to claime by Tu es Petrus or any other so unconcluding an argument. 1662H. More Philos. Writ. Pref. Gen. p. iii, The Author's Excuse for his omitting..to confute the unconcluding Reasons some use for the proof of a God. 1713E. Calamy Life R. Baxter xiii. 356 He shews his arguments both ad Rem and ad Hominem to be unconcluding. Hence † unconˈcludingness. Obs.
1647Jer. Taylor Lib. Proph. vi. 110 The uncertainty of the truth of its decrees, by reason of the unconcludingnesse of the Arguments brought to attest it. 1661Boyle Scept. Chym. iv. (1680) 440 The unconcludingness of the Analytical Experiments vulgarly Relyed on. |