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1611.  Florio, Incombinato, vncombined.

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1803.  Wellesley, in Owen, Desp. (1877), 222. Uncombined with the power of Scindiah, Holkar will not probably venture to resist the Peishwa.

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1858.  H. Bushnell, Nat. & Supernat., ix. (1864), 251. Nature, unapplied or uncombined by our wills, could do no such thing.

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  b.  spec. in chemical or technical use.

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1785.  Phil. Trans., LXXV. 293. There was never any sensible quantity of uncombined fixed air mixed with the inflammable air.

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1825.  J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 708. The specific gravity of the alloy is greater than that of the two metals in an uncombined state.

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1876.  Tait, Rec. Adv. Phys. Sci., vii. (ed. 2), 161. There may be … enormous masses of as yet uncombined iron and uncombined sulphur.

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