uncementedadj.
a. (un- prefix1 2.)
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > cement or mortar > [adjective] > coated or stopped with cement or mortar > not
unmortared1603
uncemented1717
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 28 May in Wks. (1955) VII. 286 Ancient wall of huge uncemented stones grown rough with age.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 312 Some huge fragments of uncemented blocks.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. vi. 61 With all the joints, perhaps uncemented, or imperfectly filled up with cement, open to the sky.
b. transferred and figurative.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > [adjective] > disjoining or disconnecting > not joined, united, or connected
uncoupled1377
unjoined1538
unclosed1551
unknitting1587
ununited1587
unknit1603
incommunicated1646
discontiguous1656
incontiguous1660
open1686
inconnected1742
disconnected1751
incoherent1768
uncemented1783
unconnected1829
disaffiliated1839
disconnect1845
inarticulate1852
unarticulated1861
ununified1862
1783 Beattie Theory Lang. ii. iv. 480 This uncemented composition has of late become fashionable among the French and their imitators.
1792 C. Smith Desmond II. 53 That, uncemented by blood, the noble and simply majestic temple of liberty will arise.
1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire IV. xxxix. 397 The state itself has seemed..to become a mere collection of uncemented atoms.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel (1876) 412 Subdued, but warlike nations, uncemented into one with the conquering empire.
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