individn.

a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Newberry) f. 39^v The poletyke nature þat god hath yeven the to helpe is not yd[e]ll in his commyssioun but by þe feyre vertues that he sheweth euery man in his ord[r]e shuld to contynewe mankynde in studye and to conserue the Indyvyde [a1500 Rawl. indiuiduale] supposytyf.

?c1600 tr. P. Severinus Mappe of Medicyne (Sloane 11) ix. f. 48^v There is sometimes Transplantations of Individs, & sometymes of Spetiesses..I terme it Transplantation of Individs [L. Indiuiduorum Transplantationes], when the signatures are chainged, as Coulers, tastes, magnitudes figures..& yet the roote remayneing.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. iv. v. (table) Corp. Temp. resp. the Individ.

1677 T. Harvey tr. J. Owen Epigrams ii. 42 Why want none Tasting, Touching? 'cause of these That th' individ, this guards the Species.

1788 M. Smith in A. Hamilton Papers (1962) V. 32 Lycean confederacy & the Achæan League, carried home their Laws to the individs.

1822 Missionary Herald (Boston) Nov. 356/1 An individ. who aims to collect 1,000 towards a mission to South America.

1843 Spirit of Times 25 Mar. 43/1 Two ‘individs’ in this ‘burg’ will give our friend Greer ‘the run of his teeth’ whenever he visits New York.

1900 Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 11 211 A small, entire individual and two ventral valves... Two entire individs. and two opposite valves.

1928 E. Pound Let. 5 Mar. in Pound/Zukofsky (1987) 8 A series of detached individs. capable of sym-pathy [sic] or of looking out from same central point as author.

1992 Third Way 35/2 The diff is that more of yer masses..have become choosey, angst-ridden, middle-class individs.