ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 5 b.]

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  1.  Not brought into an organic state.

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1690.  Locke, Hum. Und., II. xxx. § 5. An uniform, unorganized body, consisting … all of similar parts.

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1746.  Berkeley, in Fraser, Life (1871), viii. 316. To me it seems that stones are vegetables unorganized.

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1794.  R. J. Sulivan, View Nat., I. 467. If we find causes of uncertainty in regard to organized beings, how many more must we find in regard to unorganized beings.

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1829.  T. Castle, Introd. Bot., 225. That the epidermis is a fine, transparent, unorganized pellicle.

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1899.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VI. 189. Ordinary unorganised or partly organised polypoid thrombi.

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  2.  Not formed into an orderly or regulated whole.

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1836.  H. Coleridge, North. Worthies (1852), I. 16. Confiding in the unorganised valour of the English nation … he … opposed a standing army.

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1860.  Froude, Hist. Eng., V. 213. The sustained fire … threw their dense and unorganized masses into rapid confusion.

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  Hence Unorganizedness.

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1664.  H. More, Apology, 486. Which makes me … seem to allow of the Unorganizedness of the Æthereal Vehicle of the Soul.

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