ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. Not conforming; nonconformist. Obs.
a. 1631. Donne, Lett. (1651), 36. That more single [duellism], and almost self-homicide, between the unconformed Ministers, and Bishops.
1676. Row, Contn. Blair’s Autobiog., xii. (1848), 454. All the unconformed ministers were summoned … to come to their meeting.
2. Geol. (Cf. UNCONFORMABLE a. 3.)
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 656/2. A little appearance of the chalk is observable North of the coal of Elberfeld, to which it is unconformed.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., 325. Where any beds of the oolitic system are really unconformed to others of the same system below them.
Hence Unconformedly adv.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 590/1. The Northern and Southern portion of this great tract … agree in being … covered unconformedly by the magnesian limestone.
