ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1611. Florio, Incombinato, vncombined.
1803. Wellesley, in Owen, Desp. (1877), 222. Uncombined with the power of Scindiah, Holkar will not probably venture to resist the Peishwa.
1858. H. Bushnell, Nat. & Supernat., ix. (1864), 251. Nature, unapplied or uncombined by our wills, could do no such thing.
b. spec. in chemical or technical use.
1785. Phil. Trans., LXXV. 293. There was never any sensible quantity of uncombined fixed air mixed with the inflammable air.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 708. The specific gravity of the alloy is greater than that of the two metals in an uncombined state.
1876. Tait, Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci., vii. (ed. 2), 161. There may be enormous masses of as yet uncombined iron and uncombined sulphur.