1. Not composed or made up; not composite.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, VII. def. xii. 186. Numbers vncomposed, haue no part to measure them, but onely vnitie.
1644. Digby, Nat. Soul, i. § 3. 358. We can not diuide the actions of mans mind, further then into apprehensions; and therefore we called them simple and vncomposed.
2. Not put together in proper form.
1598. Florio, Discomposto, vncomposed, shapelesse, formelesse.
c. 1610. Women Saints, 189. I haue sett downe her life in playne and vncomposed wordes.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, ii. 17. Variety uncomposed, and without design, is confusion and deformity.
1838. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), IV. 140. Scotts Biography if uncomposed, lies here, in the elementary state, and can at any time be composed, if necessary.
3. Not reduced to an orderly or tranquil, state; disordered, excited.
1601. B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum. (Qo.), V. i. 526. It is a vertue that persues Any saue rude and vncomposed spirites.
1639. Bp. Reynolds, Lords Supper, xviii. Sudden, uncomposed, & uncollected thoughts.
1691. Hartcliffe, Virtues, 205. The Scum of an empty Mind, the very froth of an unsetled and uncomposed Spirit.
b. Unregulated; disorderly.
1631. Brathwait, Whimzies, Traveller, 93. Not an irregular haire about him, nor an unset looke to attend him, nor an uncomposed cringe to accoutre him.
1649. Alcoran, 411. The uncomposed gestures of the drunkard.
4. Not brought into a state of concord.
1650. R. Stapylton, Stradas Low C. Wars, V. 133. In his Letters to the Governess, the Emperour promised her his endeavours, if any thing was yet uncomposed.
1651. C. Cartwright, Cert. Relig., I. 87. Whilst the Catholicks have no jars undecided, no differences uncomposed.