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1770.  Burke, Pres. Discont., 71. His single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours. Ibid. (1780), Œcon. Reform., Wks. III. 285. A blind unsystematick observance of every trifle.

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1836.  J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., ii. 45. The Bible … is, in general, an unsystematic, miscellaneous communication.

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1862.  ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., x. 430. We miss the spontaneous and unsystematic music … of the true ballad.

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1875.  B. W. Richardson, Dis. Mod. Life, 11. The naming of these groups … has been unsystematic and fanciful.

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