ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not defined or clearly marked; indefinite.
1611. Florio, Indefinito, vndefined.
1658. Phillips, Indefinite, not limited, undefined, undetermined.
1716. Addison, Freeholder, No. 31, ¶ 5. The Terms which the Author makes use of are loose, general, and undefined.
1797. Godwin, Enquirer, I. xii. 105. A sort of floating and undefined reverie.
1844. Kinglake, Eöthen, viii. The prestige created by the rumours of her high and undefined rank.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 156. Theology is full of undefined terms which have distracted the human mind for ages.
Hence Undefinedly adv.; Undefinedness.
1827. Montgomery, Pelican Isl., IX. 190. His soul explored immensity, In search of something undefinedly great.
a. 1832. Bentham, Language, Wks. 1843, VIII. 304/1. Clearness, as opposed to: 1. Obscurity, 2. Ambiguity, 3. Undefinedness.
1860. J. Young, Prov. Reason, 47. Only through and on account of this undefinedness is Being non-Being.