1654. Fuller, Two Serm., 5. By their easinesse and unactivitie [they] betray themselves to that condition.
a. 1676. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man. (1677), 98. To suppose them in an eternal rest and unactivity, were to suppose them eternally kept in a useless, needless, imperfect state.
1740. Cheyne, Regimen, iv. 174. The human Soul now confind to Darkness, Silence, and Unactivity.