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indiscrete, a.|ɪndɪˈskriːt|
Also 7 indiscreet.
[ad. L. indiscrēt-us unseparated, undistinguished: see in-3 and discrete, and cf. the differentiated indiscreet.]
†1. Not distinctly separate or distinguishable from contiguous objects or parts. Obs.
1608Topsell Serpents (1658) 629 The Ammodyte, indiscreet on the Land [indiscretus arenis], Doth hold the colour of the burning sand. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. Introd., The round crustates, sc. the Cancri, have..an in⁓discrete head.
2. Not divided into distinct parts.
1782T. Pownall Antiq. 132 (T.) A chaos, in which the terrestrial elements were all in an indiscrete mass of confused matter. 1883Sir M. Monier-Williams Relig. Th. & Life India 13 Next all was water, all a chaos indiscrete. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. ii. ii. iii. 409 The Absolute is not Substance homogeneous and indiscrete.
Hence indiˈscretely adv., without separation or division.
1698Phil. Trans. XX. 463 As for Method, there is none at all..the Species being promiscuously and indiscreetly placed as they came to Hand. |