a. [UN-1 7. Cf. MDu. oncostelijc, -lic, Du. onkostelijk, MLG. unkostlik.] Inexpensive.

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1638.  Junius, Paint. Ancients, 52. Making a very fine and uncostly shew.

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1651.  Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xv. 186. A mans spirit is naturally carelesse of baser and uncostly materials.

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1798.  Poetry Anti-Jacobin, No. 15. 76. Uncostly cabbage springs from cabbage seed.

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1837.  Lockhart, Scott (1839), VII. 384. A volume every second month in this new and uncostly form.

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1893.  J. W. Barry, Stud. Corsica, 204. The simple, primitive, and uncostly type that one sees at Pompeii.

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  Hence Uncostliness.

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1861.  Mill, Utilit., ii. 11. The greater permanency, safety, uncostliness,… of the former [pleasures].

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