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unconˈformable, a.
[un-1 7 b and 5 b.]
1. Not conformable or correspondent to something. Also without const.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iii. vii. §4 Vnto those generall rules..we doe not defend that we may hold any thing vnconformable. 1598–9E. Forde Parismus ii. (1672) 73 So far is this Picture unconformable to the perfect description of her cælestial perfections, as far as is black from white. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 157 This must not be granted, that the Modes of Conception in the Understanding..are disagreeable to the Reality of the Things conceived by them; and so being unconformable, are therefore False. 1711Steele Spect. No. 145 ⁋7 We retain still a Quilted one [sc. petticoat] underneath, which makes us not altogether unconformable to the Fashion. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 11 The..Parts may not be unconformable to the Rules of Art. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 156 In so far as it is the will..of the witness, that his testimony..be in any respect unconformable to the real state of the case. 1883M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 299 He wanted to get me out as an unconformable element.
b. Of persons: Unwilling to conform. (Cf. next.)
1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. § 173 That People..would not appear unconformable to his Majesty's wish in any particular. 1728Morgan Algiers I. iv. 76 His libidinous and unconformable Proselytes.
2. spec. in Eng. Hist. Not conforming to the usages of the Church of England, in later use esp. as prescribed by the Act of Uniformity of 1662. Also const. to. (Cf. non-conformable a.)
1611A. Stafford Niobe 175 These men, whose puritie hath made them vnconformable to the present Discipline of the Church. 1647Clarendon Hist. Rep. iv. §10 The recommending some seditious, Unconformable Ministers, to be Lecturers in Churches about London. 1672Baxter Bagshaw's Scand. iii. 32 Could you wish..that the..Protestant Religion were kept up by none but the unconformable Ministers in private? 1732Neal Hist. Purit. I. 307 Many ministers of his diocese being returned unconformable, were suspended. 1736Chandler Hist. Persec. 358 A warrant from the Council..to stop all ministers unconformable to the discipline and ceremonies of the Church. 1861W. S. Perry Hist. Ch. Eng. I. xvi. 591 Unconformable clergy could be reduced..into a sullen outward compliance.
3. Geol. Not having the same direction or plane of stratification. Also const. to.
1813Bakewell Introd. Geol. (1815) 76 Granite is sometimes met with not under the slate rocks, but resting upon them in an unconformable position. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 201 The travertin is unconformable to the lacustrine beds. 1882Geikie Text-bk. Geol. iv. x. 601 Wherever one series of rocks is found to rest upon a highly denuded surface of an older series, the junction is unconformable.
Hence unconˈformableness.
1711Phil. Trans. XXVII. 329 The unconformableness that the Figure of the compounded Globe had to a perfect Sphere. |