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单词 incompact
释义 incompact, a.|ɪnkəmˈpækt|
[in-3.]
Not compact; loosely put together; of loose consistency.
1616Bullokar, Incompact, slight, not close ioyned.1684T. Burnet Th. Earth ii. 55 These ruines..being not onely unequal in their surface, but also hollow, loose, and incompact within, as ruines use to be.1759tr. Duhamel's Husb. i. viii. (1762) 22 The earth itself loose and incompact.
b. transf. and fig.
1829Landor Wks. (1846) I. 399/2 The empire of the Czars being already incompact and vast.1852Seidel Organ 116 Their tone is too braying and incoherent (or incompact).1869Haddan Apost. Succ. iii. 55 An organized Church is a more effective instrument for the transmission of truth than the incompact school of a philosophical sect.
Hence incomˈpactly adv., incomˈpactness.
1727Bailey vol. II, Incompactness.1846Landor Wks. I. 71/2 My memory..is apt to stagger and swerve under verses piled incompactly.1898Blackw. Mag. Oct. 540/1 The geese..have a strange air of incompactness, mainly attributable to the independent character of many of their wing-feathers.
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