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indesignate, a. Logic.|ɪnˈdɛsɪgnət|
[f. in-3 + designate ppl. a. (see quot. 1844).]
Not quantified, indefinite. Also absol. as n.
1844Hamilton Reid 692 The term indefinite ought to be discarded in this relation, and replaced by indesignate. 1852― Discuss. App. ii. 601 The Indesignate is thought, either precisely, as whole or as part, or vaguely, as the one or the other, unknown which, but the worse always presumed. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton xxii. (1872) 511 note, The Indesignate is..often not thought in any relation of quantity at all. 1866Fowler Deduct. Logic (1869) 29 ‘Indefinite’ or ‘indesignate’ propositions..in which the subject, being a common term, is not quantified. |