Unsorted

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1. Not arranged or put in order.

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1533. More, Apol., xlvii. Wks. 931/2. Good Tomme Truthe … bringeth neuer a wytnesse with hym, and all hys euydence vnsorted.

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1741. Watts, Improv. Mind, xx. (1786), 408. Their ideas … will lie in the brain unsorted, and thrown together without order.

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1861. Wynter, Soc. Bees, 22. The last letters … are, of course, vnsorted, and have to go through that process as the train proceeds.

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1895. Educat. Rev., Nov., 352. A new science has been developed out of what were unsorted and uninterpreted fragments.

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† 2. Unfitted, unsuitable. Obs.^–1

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1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iii. 13. The purpose you undertake is dangerous, the Friends you haue named vncertaine, the Time it selfe vnsorted.

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