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incondite, a.|ɪnˈkɒndɪt|
[ad. L. incondit-us disordered, uncouth, f. in- (in-3) + conditus, pa. pple. of condĕre to put together.]
1. Consisting of parts which are ill arranged; ill constructed, ill composed: said esp. of literary and artistic compositions.
1634Jackson Creed vii. x. §2 Such incondite figures, or confused fancies as are thereon painted. 1708J. Philips Cyder ii. (1807) 92 Now sportive youth Carol incondite rhythms with suiting notes. 1794Gifford Baviad (1811) 48 O deign, To cast a glance on this incondite strain. 1832Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. xxxv. 619 An incondite collection or heap of single and insulated rules. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. C.'s Lett. I. 75 Plenty of incondite stuff accordingly there was [in the lecture].
2. Unformed, crude; without delicacy of finish; rude, unpolished, unrefined.
1539Taverner Gard. Wysed. ii. (1545) 2 a, I muste desyre you..to pardon myne incondite and grosse phrase. 1657Trapp Comm. Ps. cxvi. 1 An inarticulate incondite voice. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 434 Something far more rude and incondite must have preceded and paved the way for it [the alphabet]. 1871Kingsley At Last II. xv. 262 The Negresses..forgot themselves, kicked up their legs, shouted to the bystanders, and were altogether incondite.
3. Rendering L. incondita qualifying vox ‘utterance’, and applied to interjections representing mere natural utterances.
[1549Lilly Brev. Inst. Grammaticae Cognosc., Interjectio est pars orationis quae sub incondita voce subito perrumpentem animi affectum demonstrat..An interiection is a parte of speche whyche betokeneth a sodayne passion of the mynde under an unperfect voyce.] 1845Stoddart in Encycl. Metrop. (1847) I. 186/1 These variations then depend not on the articulation, but on the intonation; that is..on the elevation or depression of voice in pronouncing it: but this is not peculiar to the interjection oh! or to the ‘incondite’ interjections generally; for the same may be observed of any nouns or verbs used interjectionally.
Hence inˈconditely adv., in a crude or undigested condition; in an ill-constructed form.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 141 Its [the stomach's] fluids are poured forth too sparingly or too inconditely. 1880F. Hall Doctor Indoctus 35 The rule here inconditely laid down admits, as worded, of a tedious variety of interpretations. |