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unexˈtended, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not extended or stretched out.
1648Hexham ii, Ongereckt,..Vnreached, or Vnextended. 1697Congreve Mourn. Bride iii. vi, Think on to-morrow, when thou shalt be torn From these weak, struggling, unextended arms. 1712Blackmore Creation vii. 75 See his right hand he unextended keeps. 1757Johnson Let. to C. O'Connor 9 Apr. in Boswell, Of these provincial and unextended tongues, it seldom happens that more than one are understood by any one man.
2. spec. Having no extension.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 33 Nor is All-fillingness any more unextended,..because 'tis not thing enough to be recht out. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §20. 20 Aristotle..did suppose Incorporeal Substance to be unextended, and as such, not to have Relation to any place. 1764Reid Inquiry vii. 210, I appeal to any man of common sense, whether extension can be in an unextended subject. 1803Monthly Mag. XV. 322 If..spirit be defined an active sensitive unextended formless substance. 1860Mansel Proleg. Log. (ed. 2) 49 An unextended colour is therefore a purely negative notion.
So unexˈtendedly adv., -ness.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 16 If..Gods eternity not be an everlasting now, and his immensity an unbounded unextendedness. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 823 Such considerations..as tend directly to prove, that there is something unextendedly incorporeal. |