a. (UN-1 7 b, 5 b.)

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1668.  H. More, Div. Dial., II. v. 197. You seem to forget that the strokes of Nature levell not at particulars. For she is an unperceptive Principle.

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1691.  Norris, Pract. Disc., 171. His Affections … are now become so unperceptive of any thing but the … relishes of the Animal Nature.

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1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), I. 298. Those who have asserted that … a perceptive being may be produced by a combination of unperceptive principles.

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1882.  St. James’ Gaz., 30 March, 3/2. He cut it out, good man, being unperceptive of the consequences.

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