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† incomposed, a. Obs.|ɪnkəmˈpəʊzd|
[f. in-3 + composed: cf. F. incomposé (15th c. in Godef.), L. incompositus.]
1. Not composite or compound; simple, uncompounded.
1634W. Tirwhyt tr. Balzac's Lett. (1638) 242 A simple and incomposed substance..farre from all composition and mixture. 1655Stanley Hist. Philos. ii. (1701) 62/1 He used the Ionick Dialect, plain and incomposed. 1657–83Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. 189 [The Soul], being an act, is incomposed, and, could she die, would be annihilated.
2. Wanting in composure or orderly arrangement; disordered, disarranged; disturbed, agitated, discomposed.
1608Chapman Byrons Trag. Plays 1873 II. 256 When th' incomposd incursions of floods Wasted and eat the earth. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. ii. xi. §4 (1622) 318 Such vntuneable and incomposed noyse. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 989 Him thus the Anarch old With faultring speech and visage incompos'd Answer'd. 1727–46Thomson Summer 491 The strong laborious ox, of honest front Which incompos'd he shakes. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 339 With hasty Step, and Visage incompos'd, Wildly she star'd.
3. Indisposed (to), not in the proper state for. Cf. compose v. 14.
1660J. S. Andromana i. i. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 198 That sweetness which bewitch'd men's hearts is grown So rugged, so incompos'd to all commerce, Men fear he'll shortly quarrel with himself.
Hence † incomˈposedly adv., in a disorderly or disturbed way; without composure; † incomˈposedness, want of composure, disorderliness.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xi. vi, If she had spoken too loud and incomposedly, he might have had some just colour for this conceit. 1653H. More Antid. Ath. i. x. (1662) 32 Whose limbs by force of the convulsion are moved very incomposedly and ilfavour'dly. Ibid. iii. xvi. 141 A jumbled feculency and incomposedness of the spirits. a1711Ken Man. Prayers Wks.(1838) 426 If you find in any duty..incomposedness, and weariness of spirit. |