imperfectedadj.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Imperfected, infectus, i. non factus aut non perfectus.

1580 E. Knight Triall of Truth f. 62^v The grounde woorke was founde so imperfected, by reason of the sundrye imperfections that were founde therein.

1599 C. Fitzgeffry in T. Storer Life & Death Wolsey sig. A4 Conceits true Storer, when I view'd of late, Thy new-borne Wolsey, while he did remaine As in the matrice, yet inanimate, An imperfected embrion of thy braine.

1637 H. Wotton Let. 30 July in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 441 To trouble you..about the yet imperfected, though wel imprimed, Business of New-Windsor.

1663 G. Harvey Archelogia Philosophica Nova II. i. xxiii. 191 If the throat be very hollow, and that the Uvula be wanting, the Sound reflecting against that imperfected Hollowness makes its voice hollow and loud.

1702 A. Boyer Hist. King William III I. App. 374 The Ordinance, Rules, and Statutes whereof are either Embezzl'd, Lost, Corrupted, or altogether Imperfected.

1783 W. Crawford Hist. Ireland II. lx. 231 Bills of importance, which had been prepared, remained imperfected, and grievances complained of unredressed.

1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 297 The younger and imperfected creatures mine their way..in the solid timber.

1875 Reynolds's Newspaper 11 Apr. 1/4 The dress..when in its imperfected state was offered..to the Admiralty and the Board of Trade. Various important improvements have been made.

1921 Med. Herald 15 June 157/2 A crop of myxoedemas was unavoidable till every little imperfected technique of Ray therapy of the thyroid could be excluded.

2006 ELH 73 254 The incompleteness of the book..marks ‘the matter of iust memory’ as an undetermined, imperfected potential in the object, waiting for a subject to realize its final form.