ppl. a. Obs. [UN-1 10 and 5 b.] Inconclusive.

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a. 1643.  Ld. Falkland, etc., Infallibility (1646), 200. You are to wise to claime by Tu es Petrus or any other so unconcluding an argument.

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1662.  H. More, Philos. Writ., Pref. Gen. p. iii. The Author’s Excuse for his omitting … to confute the unconcluding Reasons some use for the proof of a God.

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1713.  E. Calamy, Life R. Baxter, xiii. 356. He shews his arguments both ad Rem and ad Hominem to be unconcluding.

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  Hence † Unconcludingness. Obs.

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1647.  Jer. Taylor, Lib. Proph., vi. 110. The uncertainty of the truth of its decrees, by reason of the unconcludingnesse of the Arguments brought to attest it.

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1661.  Boyle, Scept. Chym., IV. (1680), 440. The unconcludingness of the Analytical Experiments vulgarly Relyed on.

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