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▪ I. non-, prefix|nɒn|
(also 4–6 noun-, noon-, 5 nom-, 5–6 nowne-, 5–7 none-, often written separate),
used to express negation. One of the great formative elements in English. The earlier formations were either directly adopted from, or modelled upon, Anglo-French compounds in noun- = OF. non-, nom-, nun-, num- (mod.F. non-):—L. nōn ‘not’ used as a prefix; from about 1500 the predominant form of the prefix is that of the L. nōn. It appears first in English towards the end of the 14th c. in non-power (Chaucer, Langland, Wyclif), and non-residence, nonsuit (Wyclif). In the 15th and 16th c. a considerable number of compounds (chiefly nouns of action and gerunds) were in use, most of them being of a legal character. Until about the middle of the 17th c. the compounds formed with non- are mostly of a special or technical kind, but from that time the prefix became less restricted in its use and began to be prefixed freely to substantives, adjectives and adverbs, participles, and verbal ns. (rarely to infinitival forms). To the political and religious movements of the 17th and 18th c. are due many new formations, some of which, as nonconformist, non-juror, non-resistance, have a permanent place in the language.
In the majority of the compounds of non- the hyphen is usually retained; but it is commonly omitted in the case of a few, such as nonconformist, nonentity, nonsense, in which the etymology has been to some extent lost sight of. Normally the prefix is unstressed, but in the disyllables nonage, nonclaim, nonsense, nonsuit, and in nonchalance, -ant, nondescript, the non- receives the stress. It is also liable to be stressed when the compound and the simple word are coupled together, as to act or ˈnon-act, distribution or ˈnon-distribution, being and ˈnon-being.
Formations having an independent status or a continuous history during any period are entered as Main words; a small proportion of the remainder are illustrated in this article, no attempt having been made to represent with any degree of fullness the very extensive development in the use of the prefix during the last hundred years.
1. Prefixed to nouns of action, condition, or quality, as non-accomplishment = failure to accomplish, non-acquaintance = want of acquaintance, non-adherence = the condition or quality of not being adherent. Also non-achievement, non-activity, non-ambiguity, non-aspiration, non-availability, non-candidacy, non-class, non-commitment, non-communication, non-commutativeness, non-commutativity, non-comparability, non-comprehension, non-conservation, non-contemporaneity, non-creativity, non-deposition, non-derivability, non-disclosure, non-discrimination, non-employment, non-equilibrium, non-equivalence, non-finality, non-happening, non-implication, non-inclusion, non-independence, non-influence, non-invitation, non-involvement, non-occurrence, non-pathogenicity, non-planarity, non-possession, non-reality, non-reception, non-recognition, non-recurrence, non-simultaneity, non-stationarity, non-stoich(e)iometry, non-support, non-transitivity, non-uniformity, non-uniqueness, non-universality, non-validity, etc.
c1465Plumpton Corr. (Camden) 15 Excuseing the *non accomplishment of her desire in such wis as yee can well enough.
1934Webster, *Nonachievement. 1946Nature 17 Aug. 236/2 The residual carbon dioxide in the inhibited oxidation gases..is shown in the graph by the non-achievement of 100 per cent inhibition.
1884Manch. Exam. 27 Aug. 6/3 Owing to their *non-acquaintance with the English tongue.
1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 282 Alarming her with the evil consequences of her *non-acquiescence.
1836–41Brande Chem. (ed. 5) 367 The *nonaction of this gas on copper-leaf. 1897Gladstone E. Crisis 2 The concerted action, or non-action of the Powers of Europe.
1847W. Smith tr. Fichte's Characteristics Present Age 6 Every one would accept the proof of non-existence at a particular time, as equivalent to the proof of *non-activity at the same time.
1715Life Earl Halifax in Wks. 208 The same Members could not be as much as suspected for *Non-adherence to the same Principles. 1848Lindley Introd. Bot. (ed. 4) II. 45 This character of the aril, viz., its non-adherence to the testa.
1414Rolls of Parlt. IV. 58/1 The forseide Priour and Chanons hav cleymed of hem..custumes, for her singuler profyt and *non avauntage to the Kyng.
1862Ansted Channel Isl. i. i. 8 The practical difference between them amounts to little more than a *non⁓agreement as to their rates of decomposition.
1766Blackstone Comm. II. xx. 301 The feodal doctrine of *non⁓alienation without the consent of the heir.
1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. iii. 74 How could we..insure *non-ambiguity of a proper name?
a1797Walpole Geo. II (1847) I. v. 138 What he had said regarded the clause of *non-amotion.
1579Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 187 Finding himself be his *non-apprehensioun disappointit of his weikit purpois.
1808T. Chalmers in Mem. (1849) V. 133, I..am much mortified by the *non-arrival of my copies.
1821Mar. & R. L. Edgeworth Mem. I. 59 My articulation, or *nonarticulation of the letter R.
1958E. Fischer-Jørgensen in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 140/1 The *non-aspiration of final /t/ and the non-closure of final /d/ should be considered as part of the syllable boundary.
1784R. Bage Barham Downs II. 16, I got him to repeat this maxim, and then ventured upon a little *non-assentation.
1731–8Swift Pol. Conversat. Introd. 57 The Mind being wholly taken up, and the Consequence of *Non-attention so fatal.
1975Aviation Week & Space Technol. 17 Feb. 24/3 *Non-availability of spare parts in many areas. 1985Data Communications Jan. 126/2 The uninterrupted period of time that network or computer resources are..available to a user; time between failures or periods of nonavailability.
1968Gainesville (Florida) Sun 16 Jan., All this randomly built superstructure of his *non-candidacy could..come tumbling down. 1971New Yorker 4 Dec. 47 In addition to repeatedly asserting his non-candidacy, [Senator Edward] Kennedy had made some forceful speeches in recent months.
1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic 123 The distinguishing feature of *non-class y is this: ‘x {elem} y’ amounts, for every object x, to ‘x = y’. 1973‘Trevanian’ Loo Sanction (1974) 11 A dour young man..flaunting his non-class by drinking beer.
1853J. Martineau Ess., etc. (1891) III. 472 Infinite non-commencement and infinite *non-close are impossible to thought.
1827Sir J. Barrington Pers. Sk. II. 20 A snap or a *non-cock is to be considered a miss-fire.
1788T. Taylor Proclus II. 157 Such as affirm the *non-coincidence of lines extended from angles less than two right.
1650Exercit. conc. Usurped Powers 72 The people's *non-commitance of any power to their Representees.
1959Brno Studies in English I. 133 This is not so much *non-commitment..as withdrawal. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 94 A tone of non-commitment is established.
1781Lutwyche Reports Table of Entries, Plea of *non-commorancy.
1960News Chron. 28 July 6/6 Critics talk a lot about the problem of *non-communication amongst my characters. 1973N.Y. Times 11 Aug., One is struck by the talent of the lawyers for non-communication.
1940Mind XLIX. 459 It is not always the case that ab = ba. This *non⁓commutativeness is quite essential to its use in physics.
1964E. A. Power Introd. Quantum Electrodynamics vi. 83 The order of the factors p and A(q) in the first term of (56) is immaterial despite the *non-commutativity of pα and qα in the quantum theory.
1909W. James Pluralistic Universe 335 The only real relations in comparison are absolute identity and absolute *non-comparability. 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 158 A. A. Lyne..spoke on ‘The Problem of Non-Comparability of Word-Frequency Counts’.
1741Richardson Pamela II. 311 He was..out of Humour at her supposed *non-complaisance.
1910Daily Chron. 3 Mar. 4/4 To *non-comprehension of the true meaning of that golden rule..can be traced practically every defect of our system. 1962Times 15 Feb. 15/2 Across a vast abyss of non-comprehension.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 532 Her [sc. the Virgin's] *non-conception of humane seed.
a1716South Serm. (1744) X. 85 It sees the *non-concludency of those arguments, that it rested upon before.
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 207 The *non⁓connivence of their anthers.
1941Physical Rev. LIX. 441 A natural consequence of this *nonconservation of spin angular momentum is a dependence of the scattering cross section upon the spin magnetic quantum number of the incident beam. 1968M. S. Livingston Particle Physics vii. 146 As another example of nonconservation of parity in a weak interaction, it shows a correlation between spin and direction for the product photon.
1691Norris Pract. Disc. 307 A *Non-consideration of his [sc. God's] Presence and Inspection.
1657North's Plutarch, Add. Lives 52 Her very Palace was distasteful unto her, by reason of the *non con⁓society of her dead Lord and King.
1950F. E. Zeuner Dating Past (ed. 2) iv. 78 This evidence bears out what has been said on p. 54, that the land rose faster than the sea-level in the northern Baltic region, and that the *non-contemporaneity of the maximum in different parts of the Baltic may be due to this fact. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles i. 5 The noncontemporaneity of geological events..makes some scale of reference imperative.
1677Gilpin Demonol. (1867) 247 The suspicions of *non-conversion are more common, and not so dangerous.
1673S. Parker Reproof Reh. Transp. 416 Some..protest their *non-conviction of any guilt.
1831Scott Let. in Lockhart (1839) X. 126 Our habits of *non-correspondence are so firmly established.
1957P. Suppes Introd. Logic 154 Criterion of *Non-creativity. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic xi. 190, ϕ will satisfy the criterion of non-creativity.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel (1876) 494 They..assume..the *non-credibility of the Gospels.
a1859De Quincey Posth. Wks. (1893) II. 154 If the *non-culture of the human race allowed them to break out into war with little or no preparation.
1698–9in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 105 The great difficulties which soon arose from the *non⁓currency of Money.
1845Whately Logic (1850) iii. §17 146 This *non-decision is practically the very same thing as a decision in favour of the existing state of things.
1742Gilbert Cases Equity 254 The Plaintiff, by assigning a particular Breach in the *Non-delivery at any one Time, may bring the whole Matter in Question.
1843Mill Logic I. iii. ix. 499 The presence or absence of an uninterrupted communication with the sky causes the deposition or *non-deposition of dew. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles i. 8 The older strata may be tilted..during the period of non-deposition.
1957A. N. Prior Time & Modality ii. 14 If we wish to express the *non-derivability of CMpp. 1964G. Kreisel in Benacerraf & Putnam Philos. of Math. 157 Hilbert emphasized the consistency problem which is so to speak the weakest non-derivability result.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 507/1 In consequence of *non-development of the pelvis.
1651C. Cartwright Cert. Relig. i. 41 In vaine is their excuse, if *non-disagreement in fundamentalls.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 486 The *non-discernment, if owing to inability, being not a wickedness committed.
1908Westm. Gaz. 24 July 8/4 Defendants resisted the plaintiff's claim under the policy upon the grounds of the misstatement and *non-disclosure. 1950Mind LIX. 248 There is always a possibility..of non-disclosure or lies.
192319th Cent. Jan. 135 Shinto favours racial *nondiscrimination. 1958Listener 16 Jan. 88/1 To say that the Communists, who claim world brotherhood,..practise non-discrimination in the fullest sense on the racial side, [etc.].
1540in Eng. Gilds (1870) 256 A reasonable accompt of the distribucioun and *non-distribucioun thereof. 1845Whately Logic (1850) i. §5. 28 The fallacy..consisting in the ‘non-distribution of the middle term’.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel iii. 103 The objection tacitly assumes the thing to be proved, the *non-Divinity of prophecy.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. i. v. 108 The Divisibleness or *non-Divisibility of each Corporeal Substance into infinite Material Parts.
1683J. Corbet Free Actions iii. xxviii. 48 Though the meer *Non-donation of more special..Grace be arbitrary with God.
1843Mill Logic II. v. iv. 398 It is not the nature of the faculties..but the *non-employment of them. 1966A. Battersby Math. in Management iii. 74 The quick answer ‘use machinery wherever possible because it is cheaper’ is not necessarily the best when the non-employment of labour is unjustified on social or moral grounds.
1864Bowen Logic v. 139 We have an equation, or *non-equation, established between these Terms.
1790Phil. Trans. LXXX. 526 The *non⁓equilibrium of the particles in motion. 1938J. Newton Introd. Metallurgy vi. 162 The iron-carbon equilibrium diagram..is the best diagram to illustrate the meaning of equilibrium and non-equilibrium. 1971Contrib. Mineral. & Petrol. XXXII. 165 Some magnetites..that show a wide variation of Cr content also give very erratic oxygen isotopic results, suggesting non-equilibrium.
1894J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 3) ii. iii. 111 To establish their *non-equivalence we may proceed as follows. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 212 The connected non⁓equivalence of ΠxMϕx and MΠxϕx.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Mankind i. iv. (1677) 99 The *Non-eternity of Mankind.
1760Chron. in Ann. Reg. 94 The *non-exercise of the mind contributes not a little to the increase of the scurvy.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. xviii, Rash man that doth inferre negation From thy dead ear, or *non⁓experience.
1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's System viii. 370 Religion alone pretends to answer the question, why it is that *non-finality and non⁓attainment and illusoriness seem to characterise all human experience and all human life. 1971D. Crystal Linguistics 133 The..sentence ends with a rising movement.., giving the impression of non-finality.
1740Cheyne Regimen 181 This..supposition of God's..*Non-foreknowledge of his finite free Intelligences future actions.
1658–9in Burton's Diary (1828) IV. 176 All that sit on that foot of *non-freedom or non-residency.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 494 The amount of damage..that might result from the *non-fulfilment of it [sc. a contract].
1656Jeanes Mixt. Schol. Div. 15 A certaine perswasion of the *non futurition of the evill.
1657Baxter Pres. Thoughts 11 It is not the Impossibility but the *non-futurity that God decreeth.
1664Power Exp. Philos. ii. 136 His third Argument is from the *Non-gravitation of the Mercurial Cylinder.
1892W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 319 Our conscious states are temporal events,..the conditions of whose happening or *non-happening from one moment to another, lie certainly in large part in the physical world. 1968Gainesville (Florida) Sun 13 Feb., The [TV] medium's extraordinary ability to suggest that a true happening resides in a non⁓happening.
1808Phil. Trans. XCIX. 36 The *non-identity of the common electricity, and that given out by the Voltaic apparatus.
1878H. MacColl in Proc. London Math. Soc. IX. 180 Thus in a *non-implication, as in an implication, the rule is Transpose and change signs. 1887J. N. Keynes Stud. & Exerc. Formal Logic (ed. 2) ii. ii. 77 The implication or non-implication of existence in propositions. 1932Lewis & Langford Symbolic Logic ix. 281 Facts like these about non-implication and independence. 1972M. A. Boden Purposive Explanation in Psychol. viii. 318 The logical characteristics of indeterminacy,..and non⁓implication of embedded clauses.
a1703Burkitt On. N.T., Mark iv. 25 He that hides his talent..is in danger of being punished severely for the *nonimprovement of it.
1885J. Veitch Institutes of Logic §383 All are thus excluded, through the *non-inclusion of any. 1952Mind LXI. 526 We interpret the non-inclusion of a conjunction as the exclusion of one or the other of the conjuncts.
1677Grew Exper. Sol. Salts in Anat. Plants (1682) 296 Whether the Solution of a smaller quantity of several Salts, doth consist with the *non-increase of the bulk of the Water?
1874W. Wallace tr. Hegel's Logic 293 A mean which combines in itself the centrality with the *non-independence of the objects. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. Formal Logic xviii. 131 (heading) PM (IV)—independence and non-independence.
1838W. Howitt Rural Life of Eng. I. i v. 79 Those who..believe in the nonsense of the economists on the *non⁓influence of absenteeism. 1907W. James Pragmatism iv. 138 All these systems of influence or non-influence may be listed under the general problem of the world's causal unity.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 151 To..leave our daughters..to Mrs. C.'s system of *non-instruction.
1646Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xxi. 157 Where we finde such Instruments, wee may with strictnesse expect their actions, and where we discover them not, wee may with safety conclude the *non-intention of their operations.
1688Norris Love i. iv. 35 If in this Absolute *non-invincibility he will have our..Freewill to consist.
1908Daily Chron. 24 July 4/3 Invitations would be robbed of their grace, and *non-invitations be invested quite unnecessarily with the air of a slight.
1940Economist 11 May 853/1 Japan's policy, for all her declarations of ‘*non-involvement’ (a new type of non-belligerency?) is bound to be that of fishing in troubled waters. 1970Guardian 31 Dec. 7/8 A devastating..argument for non⁓involvement as a starting-point for social research.
c1661Papers on Alter. Prayer-Bk. 95 That its uncharitableness to punish any Infants for the Parents faults, and that a *non-liberation is such a punishment. 1866Odling Anim. Chem. 142 The loss, or rather non-liberation, of force resulting from the merely half-burning..of the excess of carbon.
1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 II. 73/2 Johnson's remarks..on the *non-materiality or non-immateriality of Satan.
1863De Morgan Pref. in From Matter to Spirit 12 The civilised man of *non-nescience—a word I take the liberty of using for science, since two negatives make an affirmative.
1741Richardson Pamela II. 212 Her *Non-observance of my Lessons.
1646Browne Pseud. Ep. i. ii. 6 The Pelagians.., who peremptorily maintaining they can fulfill the whole Law, will insatisfactorily condemne the *non-observation of one.
1807R. Kirwan Logick I. 178 Their occurrence or *non⁓occurence being consonant to common observation. 1963J. Lyons Structural Semantics i. 8 The non-occurrence of the large set of grammatical, but nonsensical, sentences.
1646Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xviii. 383 So must..the *non opposition of our reasons procure our..acquiescence in the other.
1971Nature 12 Mar. 97/8 It should..be possible to improve greatly the efficacy of live cholera vaccines by preparing them from bacteria in which *non-pathogenicity has been induced by a very specific genetic mutation.
a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 51 A violent indulgencie of the Queen..towards this Lord; all which argued a *non-perpetuity.
1967A. Battersby Network Analysis (ed. 2) xi. 177 There are, however, some minor ones [sc. obstacles], including integer restrictions and *non-planarity.
1687Dryden Hind. & P. ii. 462 No union, they pretend, but in *Non-Popery.
1843Mill Logic I. i. ii. 52 The *non-possession of any given attribute is also an attribute, and may receive a name as such. 1959D. Cooke Lang. Mus. ii. 69 The feeling is..of non-possession, non-acceptance, need.
1674Hickman Hist. Quinquart. (ed. 2) 38 Any who was under a *non-predestination unto effectual and infallible means of eternal life.
1808Toller Tithes (1816) iii. 53 By *non-presentation of a vicar for a long series of years.
1879M. Pattison Milton 88 All artists have intervals on *non-productiveness.
1650Bp. Hall Cases Consc. Addit. i. 397 To give Testimony to the *non-prohibition of this marriage.
1842S. Lover Handy Andy x. 95 His..*non-pronunciation of the letter R.
1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1522/4 [He] was, in regard of his long Imprisonment, and *non-Prosecution, Bailed out. 1650*Non-protection [see non-obedience].
1572–3Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 195 In respect of *non⁓publiccatioun of the said abstinence.
1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 2 §3 The penaltie lymytted..to be forfeited by any officer..for *noun punysshement of Vagaboundes. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xlv. 7 How great myscheefs bred of non⁓punishment and libertie.
1583Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 601 Tueching the *non-persute of Alexander Lawder.
1885Law Times LXXVIII. 385/1 The *non-rateability of empty houses.
a1866J. Grote Treat. Moral Ideals (1876) 360 We may assume four degrees of reality or *non-reality in the moral ideals. 1909W. James Pluralistic Universe iv. 234 Zeno..has no alternative but to say that our intellect repudiates motion as a non-reality. 1924W. E. Johnson Logic III. i. 7 A verbal formula that..gives the true test of non-reality.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 656 To the account of loss, or of *non-receipt of gain.
1878Trollope Is he Popenjoy? II. ii. 20 Mr. Holdenough had made no attempt after the reception—or rather *non⁓reception—awarded to his wife. 1963Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Mar. 152/4 His [sc. Chopin's] reception—or non⁓reception—by the English.
1659Rushw. Hist. Coll. I. 537 This Message for *non-recess, was not well pleasing to the House.
1539Act 31 Hen. VIII, c. 13 §16 For mysrecitall or *non⁓recitall of leases. 1885Law Times Rep. LI. 803/1 The non-recital of the Act of 1845.
1838J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. Aug. 484 His *non-recognition of them does not put them out of existence. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. ii. §3 (1876) 271 The complete non-recognition and implied denial of it. 1862Bagehot Coll. Works (1965) II. 257 Its non-recognition by what is called the public. 1946Nature 9 Nov. 679/1 A further factor which stems progressive action is the non-recognition of the educational potentialities of museums. 1965A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 x. 373 In February 1932 Stimson, the American secretary of state, announced that the United States would not recognize territorial changes brought about by force... ‘Non-recognition’ became a League [of Nations] principle.
1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic xiii. 278 The demand for *non⁓recurrence of words arises from the public (I beg its pardon) not knowing how to read. 1911J. Ward Realm of Ends xv. 335 In place of the existing certainty of evil, there will be an even chance of its non-recurrence.
1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. (1863) 119 Any little *non-resemblance may be noted after⁓wards.
1855Kingsley Westward Ho! xxi, The doctor talked mere science, or *nonscience, about humours, complexions, and animal spirits.
1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy iv. xxix, Their hope is fully put abake And dispeired in *nonsecurytye.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. ii. v. 121 The simultaneity or *non-simultaneity of certain events. 1904Mind XIII. 214 The non-simultaneity of perception and object, where internal perception is concerned, need cause no difficulty. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 44 Non⁓simultaneity has different degrees of validity.
1643Milton Divorce ii. iv. Wks. 1851 IV. 74 If we cannot be contented with his *non-solution.
1965Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) IV. 158 *Non⁓stationarity of the EEG signals during each of the 10-second epochs does not pose the same limitations. 1974Jrnl. of Business (Chicago) XLVII. 518 (heading) Investigations of nonstationarity in prices.
1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors iii. 35 In the latter materials any unbalance (*non-stoichiometry) between constituents degrades physical properties such as mobility and lifetime to a marked extent.
1763Burn Eccles. Law (1767) I. 409 He was suspended, and after⁓wards upon his *non-submission deprived.
1909Daily Chron. 20 Jan. 6/2 The English woman makes a charge of *non-support against her husband.
1481Botoner Oracion of Flammeus Cayus (Caxton) e 8 They euery day put it in peryll and *nonsurete.
1833Coleridge Table-t. 16 Feb., Wordsworth and Goethe..have this peculiarity of utter *non-sympathy with the subjects of their poetry.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 82 Iudah transgressed, and the Promise failed, as not to be verified but upon Supposition of *non-transgression.
1939Mind XLVIII. 532 Obviously true of *non-transitivity since that is ‘ambiguous’ with respect to transitivity or intransitivity. 1974Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/2 If the nontransitivity is so counter-intuitive as to boggle the mind, we have what is called a nontransitive paradox.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 456/2 *Non-uniformity of convergence of the series does not necessarily imply discontinuity in the sum. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors vi. 116 For high-power transistors, other factors such as the non-uniformity of current distribution across the base region may become important.
1957J. D. O'Connor in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 102/1 The acceptance of the *nonuniqueness of phonemic solutions. 1974Physics Bull. Dec. 587/3 Questions of nonuniqueness and stability in nonlinear continuum mechanics.
1846J. D. Morell Hist. View Philos. I. ii. 102 He attempts to prove their *non-universality. 1893W. Minto Logic 70 The expression of Quantity, that is, of Universality or non⁓universality, is all-important.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 343 The *non validity of bulles. 1952W. V. Quine Methods of Logic §9. 50 Interchange of equivalents..preserves consistency, nonvalidity, nonimplication, and nonequivalence. 1964P. F. Anson Bishops at Large viii. 271 The validity or non-validity of Anglican orders.
1683J. Corbet Free Actions i. 5 Between Volition and Nolition there is a middle thing, viz. *Non-volition.
2. a. Prefixed to agent-nouns and designations of persons and objects, as non-abstainer = one who is not an abstainer or does not abstain, non-accent = absence or lack of accent. Also non-actor, non-addict, non-body, non-breeder, non-candidate, non-Christian, non-clitic, non-cognitivist, non-dancer, non-drinker, non-driver, non-electrolyte, non-fact, non-friend, non-Jew, non-joiner, non-linguist, non-motorist, non-musician, non-owner, non-participant, non-people, non-philosopher, non-reader, non-scientist, non-self, non-sentence, non-slaveholder, non-socialist, non-speaker, non-structuralist, non-swimmer, non-theist, non-theorem, non-visualizer, non-writer, etc.; non-seˈcretor, a person whose saliva and other secretions do not contain his blood-group antigens.
1882Med. Temp. Jrnl. L. 53 Any thoughtful person, whether abstainer or *non-abstainer.
1872Routledge's Ev. Boy's Ann. 73 ‘Incompetence’..takes an accent on the ‘com’, and a sort of sub-accent—different from a *non-accent—on the ‘tence’.
1937Times 17 Aug. 8/3 The air of reality, the judicious use of non-actors, the social consciousness of the Russian film.
1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 34 The natural revulsion which *nonaddicts feel toward addicts.
1787Hawkins Johnson 166 The instruction of *non-adults in the elements of literature.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) I. 506 What the *non⁓advocate is hanged for, the advocate is paid for.
1632H. Seile Augustus 34 His being a *Non agent in the busines, would bring his honor off without staine.
1933Dylan Thomas Lett. (1966) 72 The life of the *non-body..is capable..of creating an artistic progeny. 1949G. Ryle Concept of Mind vi. 189 Perhaps it is because of the absurdity of such collocations that so many people have felt driven to describe a person as an association between a body and a non-body.
1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revolution ix. 99 About 17,000 breeding pairs: with the *non-breeders, about 40,000. 1950Chem. Engin. Progress XLVI. 112/1 The nonbreeders are pointed essentially toward power production.
1967Time 22 Sept. 22 (heading) The *non-candidates. 1972Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 12 Jan. 16/5 Miami—Sen. Edward Kennedy, a steadfast noncandidate, was one of a dozen Democrats whose names have been entered in the..primary.
1671A. Woodhead Consid. Council of Trent xv. 240 Nor may such separation be understood from Infidels, Heathens, or *non-Christians only. 1941W. Temple Citizen & Churchman iv. 68 Children grow up in it who are schoolfellows of non-Christians.
a1871Grote Eth. Fragm. vi. (1876) 230 Aristotle's ideas are miserably defective as regards obligation towards *non-citizens.
1949*Nonclitic [see additive n.].
1952Mind LXI. 546 The *non-cognitivists are usually regarded as a relatively homogeneous group. 1963R. Carnap in P. A. Schilpp Philos. R. Carnap 1008 Both cognitivists and non-congnitivists agree that beliefs play a very important role in the origin of attitudes and decisions.
1965Noncognitivist [see imperativism].
1638Featley Strict. Lyndom. i. 135 Priests..in the institution of this Sacrament..were *nonconficients.
a1631Donne Serm. lvii. 579 All *Non-confitents, That thinke not of confessing their sinnes at all.
1643Plain English 23 The Ordinance for assessing the *Non-contributors.
a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 527 If there were any thing..in the whole creation, or *non-creation,..unknown to him.
1636R. Brathwait Rom. Emp. 93 Being an Infidel and *non-credent.
1863Trollope Rachel Ray I. vii. 136 Now the room was partially cleared, the *non-dancers being pressed back.
1868Pardon Card Player 16 The *non-dealer then cuts the pack into two parts.
1929L. Bettany in W. J. Temple Diaries p. lxxiv, Bored as a Whig, as a *non-drinker, as a scholar, and as an opponent of blood sports, by the only society he could generally enter. 1975E. Mosbacher tr. Herlin's Commemorations 4 A tall, thin, fair man.., a non-smoker and non-drinker.
1953Essays in Criticism III. 422 The customary impression of the *non-driver, that handling a car by night involves merely the switching on of headlights, and the turning of a wheel.
1891Jrnl. Chem. Soc. LX. ii. 971 (heading) Freezing points of dilute aqueous solutions of *non-electrolytes. 1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. i. 4 With salts very much in mind, he probably associates inorganic chemistry with electrolytes... However,..this branch of chemistry embraces..many compounds which neither dissolve in water nor produce ions, i.e. typical non-electrolytes.
1884Bookseller 7 Oct. 1002/1 A reproduction..so closely similar in form and appearance as to appear to *non-experts one of the originals.
1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 576/1 Utopia, the realm of *non-fact or the imaginary. 1964Listener 9 Jan. 48/2 Our opinions..should not be based on non-facts, or dubious facts.
1886Mind Jan. 29 A non-god, a non-spirit, a non-person, a *non-form.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 430 It is vniust to punish all promiscuously as well frauders as *non frauders.
1760T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. i. (1765) 147 A petition..from about five and twenty *non⁓freemen.
1971Harper's Mag. Sept. 57 ‘There are people here who are not our friends.’ The *nonfriends were expelled. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 70 Cliques of friends and nonfriends.
1687Lond. Gaz. No. 2282/1 Though of somewhat differing Persuasions in *Non-fundamentals.
1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 89 All Journeymen and Labourers,..whether *non-house-holders or house-holders.
1870Sat. Rev. 2 Apr. 443 All *non-infallibilists are but half-Catholics.
1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 4 The grief of the children on losing this most indulgent *non-instructress.
1967W. Q. de Funiak American-British Dict. 115 *Non-Jew, Gentile. 1973R. Perry Nowhere Man 6 For a non-Jew to have risen so high [in Israel] was testimony enough to his ability.
1964R. Miliband in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 78 Mills was a determined *non-joiner, with an intense dislike of togetherness. 1974Listener 14 Feb. 210/2 It was an efficient way of getting people into a group, turning non-joiners into joiners.
1936Language XII. 93 *Non⁓linguists..constantly forget that a speaker is making noise, and credit him, instead, with the possession of impalpable ‘ideas’. 1965English Studies Feb. 58 A terminology as simple and as familiar to the non-linguist as possible.
1908Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 4/1 *Non-motorists can join on equal terms. 1936Discovery Apr. 108/2 Even the non-motorist may enjoy the adventure, as a comfortable bus service has been established.
1949Penguin Music Mag. Feb. 40 This is utterly meaningless to a *non-musician, and obvious and therefore unnecessary to a musician.
1754Ess. Manning Fleet 27 The Luxuries, or *Non⁓necessaries of Life.
1912Belloc Servile State 3 This principle of compulsion applied against the *non-owners. 1948Mind LVII. 228 The political opinions of automobile-owners are not very symptomatic of the political opinions of non-owners.
1883‘Mark Twain’ Life on Mississippi 379 Could you come nearer to reproducing it [sc. the siege of Vicksburg] to the imagination of a *non-participant? 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXV. 266 All three categories (doublers, singlers, nonparticipants) are compared.
1967B. Kaufman in S. Henderson Understanding New Black Poetry (1973) iii. 206, I am writing these lines to the responsible *non-people. 1969Guardian 26 Sept. 11/2 His shiny, plastic world of nonpeople attending nonevents.
1897W. James Will to Believe 210 In all this the philosopher is just like the rest of us *non-philosophers. 1956F. C. Copleston in H. D. Lewis Contemp. Brit. Philos. 122 By the term ‘ordinary man’..I mean simply the non-philosopher.
1711G. Hickes Two Treat. Chr. Priesth. (1847) I. 272 The mission..which the ministers of some Presbyterian Churches..derive from *non-presbyters or mere lay-men.
1857R. Tomes Amer. in Japan ix. 210 Most of the higher classes..form a large body of indolent *non-producers.
1884tr. Lotze's Logic 77 Any subject, whatever it may mean, must be either Q or *non-Q, either straight or not-straight.
1857Trollope Barchester T. xxxv, The quality..were to eat a breakfast, and the *non⁓quality were to eat a dinner.
1938S. Beckett Murphy 162 Murphy, a strict *non-reader. 1964M. Critchley Developmental Dyslexia iv. 16 Monroe, too, preferred the old-fashioned phonic approach, saying darkly that it was better to be a slow reader than a non-reader.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. ii. li. §3 Collaterals have no real claims, but in cases which may be just as strong in the case of *non-relatives.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 109 A..dissembling wilinesse, with a relation to Atheisme or a *non-religion.
a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. vi. 8 The opposition is..between Saints and *non-Saints.
1897W. James Will to Believe 320 We all, scientists and *non⁓scientists, live on some inclined plane of credulity. 1959C. P. Snow Two Cultures i. 5 The non-scientists have a rooted impression that the scientists are shallowly optimistic.
1950Sci. News XV. 111 Most people secrete the appropriate blood group substances (antigens) in bodily secretions such as saliva and tears. About one-seventh of the population, however, do not do this, and are called ‘*non-secretors’. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xl. 586 Those who get duodenal ulcers include more group O than would be expected. Non-secretors are more liable to the disease than secretors.
1874J. Cunningham New Theory of Knowing 98 The bodily organism is *the ‘debateable land’ between self and *non-self. 1897Daily News 28 May 8/4 The boat lost at Kingstown had been replaced by a *non-self-righter of the Southport type. 1949Koestler Insight & Outlook viii. 120 Our understanding of other personalities, of the nonself by the self. 1970New Scientist 19 Feb. 345/1 When a foreign protein enters the body the immune system recognizes the invader as non⁓self and produces antibodies which destroy it.
1940Bryant & Aiken Psychology of Eng. 21 The phrase is any other group of words with a unitary idea, within a sentence or a *nonsentence. 1966M. Gross in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School, Venice 1962) 124 Certain strings on V are clearly understood by speakers of L as sentences of L, others are clearly recognized as nonsentences.
1832T. J. Randolph Speech on Abolition of Slavery 16 The burden of this defence..is to fall upon the less wealthy class of our citizens; chiefly upon the *non⁓slaveholder.
1895G. B. Shaw Let. 15 Dec. (1965) 578 The third division falling to Horobin, a *non socialist.
1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sciences 63 A *non-speaker of the language. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxxvi. 518 The selection of those individuals who were competent in such skills became unusually severe at the expense of the non-speakers.
1874Heath Croquet-Player 59 The *non-striker's ball, off which the croquet is taken.
1952Archivum Linguisticum IV. 89 To the *non-structuralist at least, the book appears to throw less light on the essential nature of the French language than on the present state of structural linguistics.
1849D. Campbell Inorg. Chem. 21 Nitrogen..being a *non⁓supporter of respiration.
1932Blunden Face of England 159 Our young men are *non-swimmers. 1962J. F. Powers Morte d'Urban xiii. 285 Paul, the non-swimmer, had probably been thinking of the return voyage when he pinched the life preserver.
1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iv. v, As an out-sider and *non-sympathizer.
1908Lit. Guide 1 Sept. 141/2 This false charge—viz., that *non-theists are morally inferior persons. 1944W. Temple Let. 6 Mar. (1963) 148 But there is a Christian way of living and it is possible for non-theists to appreciate it and try to follow it.
1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic vi. 185 A purely formal criterion for distinguishing between theorems and *non-theorems of the system. 1972A. Church in Rudner & Scheffler Logic & Art x. 198 The expected consequences of any assertion, even of a non-theorem.
1648Gage West. Ind. (1655) xv. 102 They will be sure to vent out some *non⁓truth. 1881Times 17 Jan. 6/2 Many conventional non⁓truths (to speak kindly) must..be excused.
1924B. G. Shaw St. Joan p. xxi, Some other people see imaginary diagrams and landscapes..and are thereby able to perform feats of memory and arithmetic impossible to *non-visualisers. 1953A. Huxley Let. 21 June (1969) 676, I am a non-visualizer, and got very little in the way of imagery.
1940V. Woolf Writer's Diary 29 Mar. (1953) 330 All the detail that seems to the *non-writer so easy..to me is torture. 1958New Statesman 15 Nov. 664/2 It might even lure some of the great non-writers in the historical profession into putting pen to paper.
b. spec. Prefixed to a n. with an implication of pretence, to denote a person who, or thing which, is not wholly, adequately, or genuinely what is specified by the n.; used esp. of forms of art or literature, freq. with the implication that they are new or unconventional forms of the things specified (cf. anti-1 2 c); as non-answer, non-architecture, non-book, non-budget, non-conversation, non-country, non-debate, non-drama, non-film, non-information, non-issue, non-lecture, non-music, non-news, non-newspaper, non-novel, non-play, non-policy, non-problem, non-sherry, non-story. See also non-art, non-event, non-hero.
1966Listener 21 July 84/1 Public men have learned to apply the technique of the non-answer, a technique in many cases mastered and perfected at the Commons dispatch-box. 1968Gainesville (Florida) Sun 11 Mar. 8 They were non-answers—words calculated solely as a physical response to solve the immediate need for some kind of a response generated in a news conference.
196020th-Cent. Oct. 357 Manchester..is a city with no architecture, only an inert mass of building. I believe that the adherents of the Betjemanesque cult of Victorian bad taste find things to admire in examples of Manchester non-architecture.
Ibid. May 441 Technical language and presentation are necessary; they do not excuse so many non-books. 1972Scholarly Publishing III. 101 Non⁓books are of several kinds; but their differences notwithstanding, they all share two common features: they tend to be written for market rather than for intellectual reasons, and they are all means rather than ends.
1967Observer 16 Apr. 10/2 The crescendo of the roll call of defeat..came just two days after the Chancellor of the Exchequer's non-Budget.
1960News Chron. 28 July 6/8 Pinter is..a writer over-occupied with the externals of behaviour. The non-conversations..can stale into nothingness.
1970Gainesville (Florida) Sun 24 Sept. A6 Jordan was and remains a non-country, created out of sandscape by Britain to pay off a dynastic debt. 1971Britannica Bk. of Year (U.S.) 779/3 Noncountry, a country whose size, location, and economic resources are inadequate for economic self-sufficiency and development.
1970Times 21 May 8 The debate on the amendments to end the Indo-China war was the usual non-debate.
1968Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 20 Jan. 33 Most of the noise is made by Mailer, who, as principal player in a turgid nondrama..barks sometimes like a dog and sometimes like a seal.
1963Listener 31 Jan. 201/1 Their [sc. the Situationists'] violent and derisory manifestations—such as the non⁓film Hurlements en faveur de Sade—are all intended to create situations..such as will produce certain kinds of human behaviour, usually disgust or disorientation.
1970Times 16 Apr. 5 The ritual exchange of non-information.
1965New Society 9 Sept. 5/3 The brain drain is a non-issue. 1972Time 20 Nov. 28 Unfortunately for the country, there were a lot of non-issues in this campaign.
1953E. E. Cummings (title) I: six nonlectures.
1958Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxx. 41 There has always been a tendency in some circles to regard jazz as non-music.
1969Listener 3 July 26/1 Easily the most interesting and successful work in the programme was the one which kept consistently and coherently to the realms of non-music, and could thus be listened to without difficulty on its own terms.
1963Non-news [see non-event]. 1972Wall St. Jrnl. Index 681/1 President Nixon clears desk with sweep of proclamations and orders, other (yawn) nonnews items. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1443/4 There's a new type of newspaper occurring in the world: the non newspaper.
1961Guardian 27 Oct. 6/5 Henry Miller's two remarkable non-novels. 1963New Yorker 8 June 120 A non-novel, ‘Why Not Try God?’
1968Ibid. 28 Dec. 2 Dustin Hoffman does his brave best to make us believe that this non-play by Murray Schisgal is a touching comedy about the ignominy of young manhood.
1962E. Cleaver in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 20/1 The fallacious stupidity of the non-policy of segregation.
1969Guardian 7 Nov. 12/2 The apostles of relevance..bring massive expertise to bear on non⁓problems.
1967Economist 5 Aug. 477 The non-sherries have carved themselves out healthy chunks of the fortified wine market on the basis of what they really are, more than by pretending to be the real Spanish thing.
1967Gainesville (Florida) Sun 19 Mar., The latest non⁓story out of New Orleans on the Kennedy assassination ‘plot’. 1968Listener 11 July 49/2 The House of Lords vote on Rhodesia..was the great ‘non-story’ of recent weeks. 1971M. Russell Deadline xiii. 157 This promises to be the non-story of the month. 1973L. Heren Growing up Poor in London vii. 179 The coming and going of ships were regularly reported by local stringers, but tarantula spiders among the bananas and other non⁓stories were always available.
3. Prefixed to adjectives, as non-absorbable, non-academic, non-actinic, non-adaptive, non-addictive, non-æsthetic, non-alcoholic, non-alphabetic, non-alphabetical, non-ambiguous, non-analytic, non-antigenic, non-aquatic, non-aqueous, non-articular, non-assertive, non-assimilable, non-atomic, non-auditory, non-automatic, non-axiomatic, non-basic, non-behavioural, non-binary, non-biodegradable, non-British, non-calcareous, non-causal, non-causative, non-cellulosic (also as n. (sc. fibre)), non-chemical, non-Christian, non-chromosomal, non-circular, non-classical, non-cognitive, non-coherent, non-coital, non-collinear, non-combustible, non-commercial, non-communicative, non-Communist, non-communistic, non-commutative, non-compact, non-competitive, non-complementary, non-complex, non-compound, non-conceptual, non-concrete, non-conscious, non-conservative, non-consonantal, non-constructive, non-contiguous, non-continuous, non-contrastive, non-controversial, non-corrosive, non-critical, non-crystalline, non-cumulative, non-cyclic, non-deductive, non-degenerate, non-delinquent, non-demonstrative, non-denominational, non-denumerable, non-derivative, non-descriptive, non-designative, non-deterministic, non-diffusible (also non-able), non-directive, non-discriminatory, non-dispersive, non-dispositional, non-disruptive, non-dissipative, non-dominant, non-dramatic, non-economic, non-electrolytic, non-electronic, non-elementary, non-emotional, non-emphatic, non-English, non-enumerative, non-enzymatic, non-enzymic, non-equivalent, non-ethical, non-exclusive, non-existential, non-explanatory, non-explosive, non-extensional, non-factual, non-fatty (cf. non-fat in 4), non-final, non-finite, non-finitist, non-fissile, non-fissionable, non-formal, non-functional, non-generic, non-genetic, non-geometrical, non-German, non-Germanic, non-grammatical, non-gravid, non-habitual, non-hæmolytic, non-Hermitian, non-historical, non-homogeneous, non-identical, non-ideological, non-illusory, non-imitative, non-independent, non-indigenous, non-individual, non-Indo-European, non-inductive, non-industrial, non-infectious, non-infective, non-inferential, non-inflammable, non-inflected, non-inflexional, non-initial, non-insightful, non-integral, non-intellectual, non-intuitive, non-involved, non-irritant, non-Jewish, non-judg(e)mental, non-kosher, non-lethal, non-lexical, non-linguistic, non-literary, non-local, non-magnetic, non-manual, non-marine, non-material, non-mathematical, non-measurable, non-mechanical, non-medical, non-Mendelian, non-mental (also as n.), non-mentalistic, non-metabolizable, non-metaphorical, non-metaphysical, non-metrical, non-migratory, non-military, non-mimetic, non-minimal, non-modal, non-molecular, non-monetary, non-motile, non-musical, non-mystical, non-national, non-native, non-Nazi, non-negative, non-negligible, non-negotiable, non-null, non-numerical, non-nutritious, non-observational, non-official, non-operational, non-organic, non-pathogenic, non-perceptual, non-perfective, non-perishable (also as n.), non-permissive, non-phallic, non-phenomenal, non-philosophical, non-phonemic, non-phonetic, non-physical, non-planar, non-poetic, non-poisonous, non-polarizable, non-porous, non-predicative, non-predictable, non-pregnant, non-prepositional, non-prescriptive, non-productive, non-professorial, non-progressive, non-propositional, non-psychological, non-public, non-purposeful, non-purposive, non-quantitative, non-racial, non-radioactive, non-reactive, non-realistic, non-reciprocal, non-recurrent, non-redundant, non-relational, non-relative, non-relativistic, non-religious, non-renewable, non-representational, non-representative, non-reproducible, non-revolutionary, non-Roman, non-roman, non-routine, non-saponifiable, non-sceptical, non-sectarian, non-selective, non-sensational, non-sensory, non-sensuous, non-sentential, non-sharp, non-shrinkable, non-simultaneous, non-social, non-socialist, non-spatial, non-spherical, non-stationary, non-statistical, non-statutory, non-steady, non-structural, non-subjective, non-suppurative, non-syllogistic, non-symbolic, non-symmetric(al, non-synchronous, non-synonymous, non-syntactic, non-systematic, non-tautologous, non-technical, non-teleological, non-temporal, non-terminal, non-theatric(al, non-theistic, non-theological, non-theoretical, non-tonal, non-totalitarian, non-toxic, non-traditional, non-transitive, non-turbulent, non-typical, non-ultimate, non-uniform, non-urban, non-utilitarian, non-vacuous, non-valid, non-veridical, non-visual, non-vital, non-vocal, non-vocalic, non-vocational, etc.; non-ˈclinical, not clinical; esp. not accompanied by directly observable symptoms; non-diˈmensional, (of a quantity) = dimensionless a. 1 d; (of an equation) composed of dimensionless terms; non-hoˈmologous, not homologous; spec. in Genetics (cf. homologous a. 4 b); non-ˈOhmic Electr., not obeying or in accordance with Ohm's law; ˌnon-stoich(e)ioˈmetric a. Chem., containing or representing atoms of the different elements in numbers that do not bear a simple ratio to one another.
Such compounds are very common in scientific use.
1808Phil. Trans. XCVIII. 361 A..quantity of *non-absorbable gas.
1797Ibid. LXXXVIII. 16 The only distinction of earths, till about the last half century, was into absorbent and *non-absorbent.
1918Nation (N.Y.) 28 Mar. 335 The real trouble with American universities has been their inability to ‘get it across’ to the ‘man in the street’, the ‘roughnecks’, and all those other fearsome beasts that inhabit the *non⁓academic jungles. 1937Mind XLVI. 124 That ease, forcefulness, and felicity of expression which made him so welcome a speaker, alike to academic and to non-academic audiences. 1957C. S. Lewis Let. 16 Mar. (1966) 275 In writing I do regard all non-academic works..as being leisure occupations. 1975Times 6 Dec. 3/2 To chop {pstlg}500,000 off the budget of a college means fewer jobs for staff, academic and non-academic.
1909Westm. Gaz. 16 Oct. 14 The real essential in comfort..is the use of one of the scientifically prepared light screens which gives us all the possible *non-actinic light. 1935Discovery Apr. 97/1 The non-actinic paper in which photographic plates were wrapped.
1883Law Rep. 27 Chanc. Div. 528 Where parties have been merely *non-active.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. xi. 207 The Pygmies of Paracelsus; that is, his *non-Adamicall men, or middle natures betwixt men and spirits.
1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xviii. 276 An artificial and *non-adaptive tendon. 1955Sci. Amer. Apr. 93/1 The modification of T2 is ‘nonadaptive’; that is, the modified virus cannot grow in the host that changed it.
1967Economist 7 Oct. 20/1 The ‘non-medical’, *non-addictive drugs such as marijuana and LSD.
1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. xxix. (1875) 218 Sometimes the tube is free and *non-adherent..; more commonly it is attached to some submarine object.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! iv. 251 Music for organized and *non-aesthetic action such as military marches and fox⁓trots. 1957T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class 164 The limits..are fixed by requirements of a non-aesthetic kind.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. vi. §2 The *non-agricultural, or rather the non-peasant population.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 59/2 Hop Bitter Beer, *non-alcoholic. 1909[see beerless a.]. 1966B. Kimenye Kalasanda Revisited 58 There he was..nursing a glass of non-alcoholic, fizzy liquid.
1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Translation vi. 90 A meaningful group of signs, alphabetic and *non-alphabetic (spaces, hyphens, etc.). 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 151 A provision must be made for the concurrent appearance of any number of non-alphabetic characters in any position.
1948D. Diringer Alphabet 21 The crudest forms of writing..are *non-alphabetical.
1964E. Palmer tr. Martinet's Elem. General Linguistics iv. 114 A *non-ambiguous form. 1971J. Anderson in A. J. Aitken et al. Edin. Stud. Eng. & Scots 76, I want now to turn to the (non-ambiguous) distinction hinted at above.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xxii. 351 In certain stages of the hypnotic trance the subject seems to lapse into the *non-analytic state. 1939Mind XLVIII. 202 The class k of non⁓analytic declarative sentences formulable in a given language. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. viii. 152 A synthetic statement would simply be defined as a non-analytic statement.
1934Webster, *Nonantigenic. 1948J. H. Burn Lect. Notes Pharmacol. 75 The protein must, of course, be non-antigenic. 1951Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) vi. 69 Enzymic digestion of antitoxic sera is also used, and by this means even the antibodies themselves may be split into non-antigenic fractions without loss of activity.
1963D. W. & E. E. Humphries tr. Termier's Erosion & Sedimentation xvii. 338 Sediments of *nonaquatic origin, such as those of deserts, can receive rain water.
1904R. A. Lehfeldt Electro-Chem. I. i. 84 These laws..are only very partially applicable to *non-aqueous solutions. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. iii. 202 The only other non-aqueous natural liquids are the complex mixtures of hydrocarbons and other organic compounds known as petroleums.
1967G. M. Wyburn et al. Conc. Anat. iv. 111/1 The [parotid] gland occupies the *nonarticular part of the mandibular fossa of the temporal bone.
1901A. Sidgwick Use of Words viii. 224 Some statement of theirs is ambiguous, and therefore..*non-assertive.
1940Kenyon Review II. 282 The poetic statement..falls between the two poles of full assertion..and pure non-assertive tension between plurisigns.
1920H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 563/1 There has hitherto existed in the States no organization for and no tradition of what one may call *non-assimilable possessions. 1972P. Green Shadow of Parthenon 70 Everything that conventional historiography finds non⁓assimilable, from science to tragedy.
1829Lamb Let. to Gillman 30 Nov., *Non-assistive to partition of natures.
1943Mind LII. 26 It is supposed that..all complex or *non-atomic assertions are just aggregates of atomic propositions linked by ‘and’, ‘on’, or ‘if—then’. 1955Koestler Trail of Dinosaur 239 The value of an atomic stockpile against non-atomic, local aggression.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. ii. 50 The momentary loss..of our *non-auditory images..makes us mentally deaf. 1938Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 649/3 Calvin was not hostile to art as such, but merely to the use of any non-auditory art in connexion with worship.
1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form i. 1 *Non⁓automatic alternations between phonemes differing in respect of one minimal feature alone are seldom more frequent than similar alternations between phonemes differing in respect of several features. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. iii. 44 The number suffixes show different forms for these two classes (nonautomatic).
1896L. T. Hobhouse Theory of Knowl. 480 We shall have to discard any other principle..as *non-axiomatic in character. 1966Jrnl. Philos. LXIII. 435 We are not inclined to admit intuition or nonaxiomatic knowledge about sets.
1939Mind XLVIII. 489 The discrimination of basic from *non-basic predicates. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 235 Non-basic endocentric constructions.
1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior 201 The explanation has the merit of not invoking *non-behavioral factors. 1953Mind LXII. 231 We have not yet enquired whether a machine is essentially distinct from a man in non-behavioural respects.
1887Farrar, etc. (title), *Non-Biblical Systems of Religion.
1947Math. Tables & Other Aids to Computation Oct. 361 It is convenient to use as many selections as there are basic binary places in the computer, or in *nonbinary machines as many as on-off signal channels. 1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics vi. 287 By taking an inventory of nonbinary, solar-type stars with low angular momenta, we may at the same time be taking an inventory of stars with planetary systems.
1967New Scientist 31 Aug. 440/1 Organic substances which are largely or totally *nonbiodegradable are currently being used in both domestic and industrial applications. 1971Ibid. 27 Apr. 260/1 Pollution created by non-biodegradable products has created immense environmental problems.
1859Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) II. 130 A genuine *non-bookish man like Captain Speke.
1955Times 2 May 18/4 The pressing need of giving *non-British immigrants to the Dominions some idea of British standards and culture.
1934Webster, *Noncalcareous. 1946Nature 21 Sept. 421/2 The non-calcareous type of surface waters, chiefly found in mountainous areas of the north and west, requires little or no treatment in the best cases. 1964V. J. Chapman Coastal Vegetation vi. 139 Two main types of dune, i.e. calcareous and non-calcareous.
1765Phil. Trans LVI. 232 When the rocks below are mixed, calcary and *noncalcary.
1911W. James Some Probl. Philos. xii. 201 *Non-causal sequences can be reversed; causal ones follow in conformity to rule. 1939Mind XLVIII. 422 But very often in determining the dates of events we use non-causal Law-propositions. 1959Archivum Linguisticum XI. 15 Feed can also have the *non-causative sense: ‘we feed at eight’.
1931Jrnl. Physical Chem. XXXV. 469 The walls [of Corallines] are *non-cellulosic. 1959Times Rev. Industry Sept. 4/1 Man made fibres..have seen the development of non-cellulosic fibres. 1964Financial Times 25 Feb. 2/2 Output of all man-made fibres, including non-cellulosics, in the U.K. was 15 per cent. higher in 1963.
1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. vii. 119 This and other *non-chemical uses of acetylene today account for only about 20 per cent of the amount consumed. 1974Verbatim Dec. 1/1 The elements for which there is likely to be a nonchemical..name.
1936T. S. Eliot Ess. Anc. & Mod. 132 There may always be schemes, initiated by *non-Christian and non-Catholic minds with purely temporal motives and aims, to which we can give unqualified support. 1965English Studies Feb. 3 Such scenes in earlier non-dramatic narrative, where the roots are probably non-Christian. 1975Times 18 Dec. 10/8 The beauty of ancient non-Christian mystical texts.
1960New Biol. XXXI. 109 The special value of Paramecium for genetics depends not on its use in the analysis of heredity by Mendelian methods but on its revelation of other hereditary or quasi-hereditary systems, based on *non-chromosomal or cytoplasmic elements.
1922A. D. Udden tr. Bohr's Theory of Spectra iii. iii. 100 The *non-circular orbits will correspond to a firmer binding than the circular orbits having the same value for the principal quantum number. 1935Mind XLIV. 373 This interpretation..shows the appeal to the divine veracity to be both non-circular and epistemologically necessary.
1926S. R. James Seventy Years ix. 72 In those days the *non-classical masters [at Eton College] who held houses were known as ‘Dames’. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 258 A non-classical calculus developed by the Russian logician A. Kolmogorov in 1925.
1934Webster, *Nonclinical. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 77/1 The prohibition has been made since the discovery that a form of non-clinical rhinitis exists in pigs in Ireland. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 33/1 The range of conditions is gradually progressive, from normal veins to veins that are elongated, tortuous and dilated but which give rise to no symptoms or to one symptom referrable to the legs; these have been termed ‘non⁓clinical’ varicose veins.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xvii. 9 Plato's earlier pupils used to admit Sensation's existence, grudgingly, but they trampled it in the dust as something corporeal, *non-cognitive, and vile. 1963R. Carnap in P. A. Schilpp Philos. R. Carnap 45 The view that these sentences and questions are non-cognitive was based on Wittgenstein's principle of verifiability.
1962F. I. Ordway et al. Basic Astronautics v. 207 (caption) Coherent and *non-coherent converters. 1967M. Chandler Ceramics in Mod. World iii. 98 The glaze at this stage is a feeble layer of noncoherent particles.
1789T. Taylor Proclus II. 155 A right line cutting *non-coincident right lines.
1971G. H. Bourne Ape People x. 255 Among humans the amount of sexual play..and..*noncoital sex in general seem to be related to the social level..and intelligence in the individual concerned. 1973I. Singer Goals Human Sexuality i. 35 Claiming that all coital orgasms are physiologically indistinguishable from noncoital ones.
1914S. E. Rasor tr. Burkhardt's Theory of Functions i. 24 Three points A, B, C in the plane such that oA, oB, oC are *non-collinear. 1918Veblen & Young Projective Geom. II. iii. 96 The triads of points..are all triads of noncollinear points. Ibid. 97 A, B, C are any three noncollinear points. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excursions in Number Theory vi. 69 How many non-collinear points in a plane can be spaced at integral distances each from each?
1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 755 The Hydroidea..the second order of Craspedota, contains both *non-colonial and colonial hydroids.
1969Gloss. Terms Fire (B.S.I.) i. 7 *Non-combustible, not capable of undergoing combustion. 1975B.S.I. News May 10 The term ‘incombustible’ as a synonym for ‘non-combustible’ is deprecated in BS 4422: Part 1: 1969 and should not be used in standards.
1901Edin. Rev. Apr. 492 The ‘dumping’ abroad at *non-commercial prices of goods manufactured in excess of the requirements of the protected home market. 1933Dylan Thomas Let. Jan. (1966) 14 It is prose..but an utterly non-commercial prose. 1973Listener 30 Aug. 295/3 This concern to tailor the news to the listener has even spread..to National Public Radio, the non-commercial radio network.
1953C. F. Hockett in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 63/2 Information theory does not deal with the way in which a source maps a *noncommunicative stimulus into communicative output.
1920B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism v. 76 If they elected a *non-Communist representative he could not obtain a pass on the railway. 1972‘G. Black’ Bitter Tea (1973) vi. 82 Singapore is now the real focal point for the whole of non-Communist Chinese life.
1852Mill Pol. Econ. (ed. 3) I. ii. i. 258 The two elaborate forms of *non-communistic Socialism known as St. Simonism and Fourierism.
1863Rep. Brit. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 1862 ii. 7 An algebra of *non⁓commutative symbols. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 159 Ordinary arithmetical multiplication and addition form groups of a special character called commutative (or Abelian) groups, since they obey the commutative law: x + y = y + x; semi-groups are in general noncommutative.
1954Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. XL. 1150 The quotient G/K of a simple *noncompact group with center reduced to {ob}e{cb} by a maximal compact sub-group carries a Hermitian symmetric structure invariant under G if and only if K has a nondiscrete center. 1959E. M. Patterson Topology iii. 63 The transformation operates on a non-compact space. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. v. 114 It is only at the lowest levels that the noncompact nature of the morphemes appears.
1632Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 125 [He] was excepted against by Mr. Hudson for a *non-competent witnesse.
1906Daily Chron. 10 Aug. 8/7 This club is extending the idea of holding a long-distance *non⁓competitive run to Bath and back. 1935Discovery Mar. 64/1 We have never ceased advocating this non-competitive use of available idle labour.
1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 40 Non redundancy (*non-complementary distribution). 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts i. 22 But the distinction between complementary and noncomplementary contained modifiers can generally be disregarded.
1936Mind XLV. 316 The third class..actually includes *non-complex ideas revived by imagination. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 36 Complex groups perform better than noncomplex groups.
1887J. N. Keynes Formal Logic (ed. 2) vi. 381 The proposition..is supposed to be *non-compound. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iv. 66 We must develop methods for analyzing non-compound statements.
1897W. M. Urban Hist. Princ. Sufficient Reason iv. 41 The postulate of ground..is not..unlogical, and *non-conceptual, as Schopenhauer later maintained. 1929A. N. Whitehead Process & Reality 344 Physical feelings form the non⁓conceptual element in our awareness of nature. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Criticism i. v. 27 Not as words that have meaningful values—but, instead, as impersonal and non-conceptual inked prints.
1641Sir E. Dering Sp. conc. Laud iii. 11 Wee may prosecute *non concludent Arguments.
1928E. & C. Paul tr. Marx's Capital ii. iii. 117 The money serves as an ideal, as a *non-concrete, means of purchase.
1667Primatt City & C. Builder Pref., If the *Non-confident Author hath been any ways defective.
1846Mill Logic i. ii. §5 A *non-connotative term is one which signifies a subject only, or an attribute only.
1912J. S. Huxley Individual in Animal Kingdom iii. 84 To discriminate between conscious and *non-conscious brains. 1972Computers & Humanities VII. 111 We propose to do a feasibility study to see if the role of language in the formation of nonconscious belief systems can be ascertained.
1867Thomson & Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. ii. 280 It is easy to arrange a system artificially, in connexion with a source of energy, so that its forces of position shall be *non-conservative. 1962Corson & Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields vi. 219 We shall now extend the discussion to include time-dependent magnetic fields and the nonconservative electric fields which accompany them. 1965H. Kahn On Escalation xii. 241 Almost everybody looks for ways to improve a situation, and ‘non-conservative’ behavior..becomes very possible.
1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 157 Opposed acoustic features:..consonantal, *non-consonantal.
1775in Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 350 Furious *non-constitutional men.
1908Westm. Gaz. 8 Aug. 14/1 Non-resistance is for the *non-constructive man. 1964G. Kreisel in Benacerraf & Putnam Philos. of Math. 158 Brouwer ignores non⁓constructive mathematics altogether.
1863H. Cox Instit. ii. xi. 567 Those courts which have a voluntary or *non-contentious jurisdiction.
1964Language XL. 24 *Noncontiguous dialect areas.
1865G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 103 All figures must be composed of continuous or of *non-continuous lines or of both. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 4 A past time auxiliary which refers to recent non-continuous actions.
1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 130 The equally *non⁓contrastive [t] and [ph].
1928J. Reith Diary 13 Apr. (1975) i. 100 Winston Churchill..said he would like to..speak for 15 minutes the next night, factual and *non⁓controversial. 1943Mind LII. 274 This covers only the elementary, non-controversial portions of the system.
1960E. L. Delmar-Morgan Cruising Yacht Equipment v. 66 A modern sextant is..made of *non-corrosive light metal alloy. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 472/2 Floor screws, flat head, self-tapping with non⁓corrosive finish.
1893G. B. Shaw Let. 3 Mar. (1965) 386 Assuring you, in our personal, non-artistic and *non⁓critical relations, of my unmitigated defiance. 1967A. Battersby Network Analysis (ed. 2) iii. 26 The systematic analysis of a network sorts out the individual jobs into two main classes, critical and non-critical.
1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 241 The *non-cruciform Llandaff Cathedral.
1851Phil. Mag. I. 178 It is..desirable that a complete theory of magnetic induction in crystalline or *non-crystalline matter should be established independently of any hypothesis of magnetic fluids. 1966D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. ii. 64 In electron microscopy the contrast is most commonly caused by elastic scattering only, that from non-crystalline replica materials being due to non⁓coherent scattering, that from thin crystalline films being diffraction contrast.
1908Westm. Gaz. 15 Aug. 15/1 Home Railway Preference stocks are *non-cumulative. 1954G. I. M. Swyer Reproduction & Sex xiv. 173 An efficient spermicide.. should be non-toxic, non-irritating, and non-cumulative;..it should preferably be non⁓absorbable.
1946F. E. Zeuner Dating the Past xi. 341 There are superimposed cycles, or *non-cyclic changes of a considerably longer duration. 1962Corson & Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields v. 203 If the vectors are permuted in noncyclic order, the sign is changed.
1914B. Russell Our Knowl. External World ii. 34 The ultimate result of the introduction of the inductive method seems not the creation of a new kind of *non-deductive reasoning. 1968R. A. Lyttleton Mysteries Solar Syst. vii. 250 An intricate subjective psychological process must be concerned, of a non-deductive character.
1900Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. I. 462 This represents the most general *non-degenerate quadric. 1929Non-degenerate [see degenerate a. B. 3 a]. 1968C. G. Kuper Introd. Theory Superconductivity xi. 183 The n-fold degenerate pair state has been split into an (n - 1)-fold level and a non⁓degenerate lower state.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 948 The *non-deliquescent sulphates..such as sulphate of soda, &c. 1941Manch. Guardian Weekly 14 Mar. 214/4 Now is my chance..to synthesize the ideology and emotional attitudes of juveniles and adolescents (cross-sectional and non-delinquent) during their vacational activities. 1970Jrnl. General Psychol. LXXXII. 265 Delinquent and nondelinquent subjects.
1944Mind LIII. 344 We must admit *non-demonstrative principles of inference which are not derivable from experience. 1965P. Caws Philos. of Sci. xxvi. 193 The most common name for such non-demonstrative inference is induction.
1908Daily Chron. 19 Nov. 4/4 The Churches..together with all the ethical and *non-denominational societies should be summoned to co-operate. 1953E. Smith Guide to Eng. Traditions & Public Life 17 A non-denominational chapel was commonly provided for religious services.
1905Ann. Math. VI. 175 An example of a *non⁓denumerable class is the class of all non-terminating decimal fractions. 1937Mind XLVI. 59 The properties of integers are non-denumerable. 1968J. J. C. Smart Between Sci. & Philos. vii. 245 A non-denumerable infinity of points.
1902W. James Let. 29 July in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) II. 650, I may maximize unduly the *non-derivative character of these forces, which you minimize. 1956J. Whatmough Language 39 The derivative manly as compared with the simple ‘non⁓derivative’ word man.
1892A. Sidgwick Distinction 182 Normally all proper (or *non-descriptive) names have once been general (or descriptive). 1925L. P. Smith Words & Idioms iii. 83 The non-descriptive, non-explanatory, and purely identifying term of the French Précieuses, je ne sais quoi. 1944Mind LIII. 241 A formal distinction can be made..between descriptive symbols on the one hand and nondescriptive or logical symbols on the other.
1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior 116 Knowledge about the adequacy of *non-designative signs is a powerful factor in their control. 1952Mind LXI. 459 These theories proposed that ethical terms function like ‘hurrah’ and ‘blast’, as non-designative expressions.
1960Encounter XV. v. 42 A markedly *non-deterministic interpretation of psycho-analysis. 1965A. Shimony in M. Black Philos. in America 260 As a result of the measurement there is a non-deterministic transition from the initial state to a final state.
1885*Non-diffusible [see particulate a.]. 1951Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) iv. 57 The toxins of bacteria which do not produce exotoxins are termed endotoxins and are thought to be firmly bound to the bacterial proteins in a non-diffusible form. 1962H. Heath in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 362 Nondiffusable high polymers. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 380 Part of the calcium content of the blood is in the form of non-diffusible compounds of calcium with protein.
1956A. A. Townsend Struct. Turbulent Shear Flow v. 91 By substituting in the equation of mean motion.., the *non-dimensional equation is obtained. 1956Nature 24 Mar. 548/2 The rather bewildering array of non-dimensional numbers that confronts the student in this subject [sc. combustion]. 1971Ibid. 13 Aug. 447/3 The system is then arranged so that the equations of motion have the same form whether they are dimensional or non-dimensional.
1951Mind LX. 398 The Rogerian *non-directive technique is of no avail. 1954J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. of Industry 78 ‘Non-directive’ interviewing in which the interviewer listens rather than talks.
1961Ann. Reg. 1960 467 The expansion of world trade on a multilateral *non-discriminatory basis.
1962W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics ii. 11 These oscillations have the unusual character of being *non-dispersive. 1966D. G. Brandon Mod. Techniques Metallogr. 155 Such needle counters hold great promise in the field of ‘non-dispersive’ analysis.
1941Mind L. 339 So it does not seem as if ϕ can be a *non-dispositional, non-relational characteristic. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. xii. 289 The dispositional predicate is said to be reducible, by means of the reduction-sentence, to non-dispositional predicates.
1970Manch. Guardian Weekly 24 Oct. 9 The colleges on their side would agree to permit *non-disruptive occupations and boycotts of classes.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 582/1 *Non-dissipative network, a network designed as if the inductances and condensers are free from dissipation, and with components of minimum loss. 1964R. F. Ficchi Electr. Interference iv. 38 A cavity resonator is described as a cylindrical box with perfect conductivity and containing within itself a nondissipative medium. An oscillation, once started within the box, should continue indefinitely.
1961Amer. Speech XXXVI. 204 The reasons for the persistence of *non-dominant languages. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 92 Ring electrodes were slipped onto two fingers of the subject's nondominant hand.
1947C. Gray Contingencies v. 120 Avoiding..the pitfall of *non-dramatic music-making into which so many of his contemporaries and predecessors had fallen. 1965English Studies Feb. 3 It is possible to find such scenes in earlier non-dramatic narrative.
1871Kingsley Lett., etc. (1877) II. 359 Flax and hemp would be the only *non⁓eatable crops here.
1920B. Russell Pract. & Theory Bolshevism ii. 123, I do not think that *non-economic factors can be neglected. 1965J. D. Chambers in Glass & Eversley Population in Hist. xiii. 344 There is more reason to relate the change to non-economic causes.
1853Phil. Mag. V. 398 Nothing is known with certainty regarding the *non-electrolytic resistance of liquid conductors. 1964R. F. Ficchi Electr. Interference v. 55 Capacitors, both electrolytic and nonelectrolytic. 1964Times Rev. Industry & Techn. Jan. 22/2 The operation was put straight on to a computer without an intervening *non-electronic stage.
1964Language XL. 191 The simple words which by our definitions are *nonelementary. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic xxiii. 177 Even the full Lower Predicate Calculus..raises problems of a non-elementary nature.
1941Mind L. 168 Expressed in non-metaphoric and *non-emotional words. 1961R. B. Long Sentence & its Parts vi. 147 This occurs in subordinate-declarative clauses following ideas of appraisal, emotional or non⁓emotional.
1901W. James Let. (1920) II. 153 The optimism and healthy-mindedness are yours... But the moderate and *non-emphatic way of putting things is not. 1966English Studies XLVII. 257 The normal non⁓emphatic character of the subject.
1877E. Caird Philos. Kant ii. xiv. 514 The power of *non-empirical ideas over the human mind.
1955Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxiv. 20, I have on tape some argots which might at first appear to be *non-English.
1941Mind L. 129 We know the truth of a universal *non-enumerative proposition, All A is B, only by apprehending, in a particular instance, that the universal A-ness necessitates the universal B-ness. 1956J. O. Urmson Philosophical Analysis v. 63 The case becomes still more favourable to general facts if we take the non-enumerative universal proposition of traditional logic—‘All As are B’.
1960New Biol. XXXI. 26 A mutation (change) of a single chromosomal gene can lead to a corresponding chemical change in a *non-enzymatic protein. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 347 Luciferin..is a non-enzymatic protein which luminesces in the presence of calcium ions.
1934Webster, *Nonenzymic. 1946Nature 28 Sept. 433/2 Mackworth finds the other {b1}SH enzymes..much less sensitive, requiring concentrations of the order of M/1,000, and this was also found by Morgan and Dixon for {b1}SH groups in non-enzymic proteins. 1965Peacocke & Drysdale Molecular Basis Heredity x. 115 Work on non-enzymic proteins.
1816J. W. Mason Plea Cath. Comm. (ed. 2) 206 The inconsistency of the government of England in supporting..the *non-episcopal churches abroad.
1885J. Veitch Institutes of Logic §560 What are equivalent, or *non-equivalent, to a common third term, are equivalent or non-equivalent to each other. 1973J. J. Zeman Modal Logic v. 80 The systems which have an infinite number of non-equivalent irreducible modalities will generally be called ‘absolutely strict’ systems, while systems containing only a finite number of non-equivalent modalities will, in general, be called ‘systems of complete modalization’.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. vi. (1677) 124 A limited or *non-eternal time.
1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 487 Purely ethical characteristics..cannot be identified with or defined in terms of *non-ethical or ‘natural’ characteristics. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. v. 93 It might seem strange at first glance that in the above treatment of jwok in Anuak we have not indicated such traditional componential contrasts as ethical vs. non-ethical and secular vs. sacred.
1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic iv. 75 We may say that each is participant, or *non-exclusive, of the other. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 402 Friendship is a nonexclusive, nonpossessive relationship.
a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. x. §131 The not having a ship ready, if it were intended, was *non-excusable.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. I. li. 450 The consideration of existence itself leads to *non-existential propositions, and so contradicts the theory. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. iv. 85 Such discourse about connections of properties without any regard to particulars exemplifying them, is often called ‘non-existential’.
1901A. Sidgwick Use of Words iv. 119 Some kind of *non-explanatory verbiage. 1966Jrnl. Philos. LXIII. 446 The author's typical non⁓explanatory explanations.
1946F. E. Zeuner Dating the Past xii. 381 The quality of the species-steps during the period of explosive evolution differs from those of the period of ordinary, *non-explosive evolution. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth xxi. 301/2 Non-explosive fissure eruptions.
1641Prynne Antipathy Ep. Ded. 3 A now-*non⁓extant Booke, written..in King Edward the 6. his dayes. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. viii, Two little visual Spectra of men..simultaneously..explode one another into Dissolution; and off hand become Air, and Non-extant!
1949Mind LVIII. 63 We need a modal or *non-extensional language which contains such words as ‘necessarily’ or ‘accidentally’. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 269 Modal operators (and non-extensional operators generally).
1934Webster, *Nonfactual. 1936Mind XLV. 359 According to Mr. Ayer every significant, non-factual proposition is analytic; every factual proposition is synthetic.
1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 720 Medical officers of health hear of all the fatal cases of any infectious disease.., but by no means of all the *non-fatal cases.
1934Webster, *Nonfatty. 1935Discovery June 170/1 For analytical purposes, milk is divided into three parts: fat or cream; non-fatty solids..; and water.
1870Rolleston Anim. Life 59 A point corresponding to the junction of the fimbrate with the *non-fimbriate portion of the mantle.
1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form iv. 47 The opposition in French between ‘close e’ and ‘open e’ in *non-final syllables is similarly marginal. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 103 In such compounds, nonfinal primary stress is supposed to become secondary.
1923J. S. Huxley Ess. Biologist vii. 264 Man's ideals are in themselves unlimited, *non-finite. 1971Computers & Humanities V. 307 Stylistic uses of the non-finite verb clause in Shakespeare's plays.
1940Mind XLIX. 248 The theory that the *non-finitist symbols used in pure mathematics are to be interpreted as ‘ideal elements’..would provide a fruitful starting-point for a consideration of certain aspects of scientific method. 1956J. H. Woodger tr. Tarski's Logic, Semantics, Metamath. 260 On account of its non⁓finitist nature the rule of infinite induction differs fundamentally.
1909Webster, *Non-fissile. 1953Non-fissile [see fissile a. 2]. 1961J. E. Radford Nuclear Energy Simplified ii. 29 The non-fissile isotope U238..has now become exceedingly valuable because plutonium can be transmuted from it.
1950Chem. Engin. Progress XLVI. 110/1 An immediate concern should be to make use of the relatively large amount of *nonfissionable U-238. 1974Sci. Amer. June 36/1 The fusion neutrons can also be used to convert nonfissionable isotopes of uranium or thorium to fissionable isotopes.
1731Bailey vol. II, *Non-floriferous..bearing no Flowers.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. I. iii. 41 This is simply an instance of the *non-formal principle of dropping a true premiss. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics v. 194 Those [definitions of the word unit] relying on non-formal, extra-grammatical criteria..are of little value.
1833Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 243 The country is *non-fossiliferous.
1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. xviii. 301 The embryonic or *non-functional period. 1965English Studies XLVI. 420 The attempt to save the Gesetz by saying that in all these cases the alliteration of the verb is non-functional can hardly be taken seriously.
1959Brno Studies in English I. 42 The *non-generic indefinite article.
1932J. S. Huxley Probl. Relative Growth vii. 207 The bulk of the observable differences in size and proportions between the existing Scottish strain of Red deer and (a) the existing Carpathian strain and (b) the sub-fossil Scottish type are *non-genetic and of no taxonomic significance. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 314 Others imply a nongenetic character of the changes involved or a combination of both genetic and non⁓genetic components.
1926A. Huxley Essays New & Old 131 The grandest sight I saw in *non-geometrical Holland was Zaandam. 1936Mind XLV. 466 Some non⁓geometrical kind of analysis.
1861Mill Repr. Govt. xvi. 292 East Prussia..must..be either under a *non-German government, or the intervening Polish territory must be under a German one. 1964English Studies XLV. 395 The use of Textbuch in the non-German sense may be due to carelessness of translation.
1937Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. 4 Oct. 463 Rules are given..and a comparison made between the vocabulary of German and English and the *non-Germanic languages. 1965English Studies XLVI. 419 This [sc. Gregorian chant] is of non-Germanic origin.
1955J. L. Austin How to do Things with Words (1962) i. 3 The mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting *non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XI. 47 The moment a ‘non-grammatical’ sentence is uttered or written, it ceases to be ‘non-grammatical’.
1961L. C. Martin Clinical Endocrinol. (ed. 3) i. 15 Oxytocin has little or no effect either upon the *non-gravid human uterus or upon the gravid uterus until the time of parturition. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 161 The perivisceral fluid..constitutes only 25% of the mass of a small (non-gravid) sea urchin.
1964C. Barber Present-Day Eng. vi. 142 This habitual/*non-habitual criterion is not typical.
1946Nature 31 Aug. 294/1 It is *non⁓hæmolytic and does not produce any pyrogenic effect on intramuscular injection in man. 1964W. G. Smith Allergy & Tissue Metabolism v. 61 They also caused the formation of hæmolytic lysolecithin-like substances and non-hæmolytic SRS.
1657Rec. Presb. Dingwall (S.H.S.) 291 The *nonharmonious concurrence of the parochiners to that transplantatione.
1955W. Pauli Niels Bohr 37 This group distinguishes two kinds of complex (*non-Hermitian) fields..which are multiplied by gauge-transformations with opposite phase factors. 1970G. K. Woodgate Elem. Atomic Struct. 207 We find it convenient to use two non-Hermitian operators.
1896W. Caldwell Schopenhauer's System ix. 508 A metaphysical analysis of the world must naturally always be taken in a timeless or ideal (*non-historical) sense. 1935Mind XLIV. 235 The historical essays..are mostly concerned with Greek philosophy..; and two of the essays are ostensibly non⁓historical.
1957L. Fox Two-Point Boundary Probl. vii. 190 A change..in the *non-homogeneous part of the equation.
1927Jrnl. Heredity XVIII. 269/1 One might suppose that a portion of one chromosome has become attached to a member of a *non-homologous pair. 1956Nature 25 Feb. 386/1 ‘Centric fusion’ of non-homologous autosomes. 1971Perceptual & Motor Skills XXXII. 639 Synchrony of bimanual wrist movements by 12 normal Ss was compared when homologous muscles (e.g., left and right wrist flexors) and when non-homologous muscles (e.g., left flexors and right extensors) were simultaneously active. 1971Chromosoma XXXV. 247 Rieger (1957) reported a high level of pairing between non-homologous chromosomes in haploid forms of Antirrhinum majus.
1890R. Adamson in W. S. Jevons Pure Logic p. xi, *Non⁓identical contents presented to it. 1965Language XLI. 280 The nonidentical subject constituents.
1964Rousseas & Farganis in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 270 The *non-ideological liberal is uncommitted. 1975Times 25 Nov. 8/8 The [Chinese] authors..have been writing cultural books, largely non-ideological, since the 1930s.
1932H. H. Price Perception v. 110 Some few and as it were privileged expanses (normal or *non-illusory ones).
1928L. P. Smith Words & Idioms 114 The *non-imitative arts, architecture and music. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 145 The reinforced group emitted significant more physical, verbal, and nonimitative aggression than the nonreinforced group.
1874W. Wallace tr. Hegel's Logic 208 The *non-independent and changeable. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic xviii. 131 A4..can be proved from the other axioms... We express this fact by saying that A4 is a non-independent axiom.
1894C. Dixon (title) The nests and eggs of *non-indigenous British birds. 1964Language XL. 93 Regional and nonindigenous influence.
1926D. H. Lawrence Plumed Serpent vii. 128 Men, dark, collective men, *non-individual. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. iv. 88 The use of non-individual variables commits the logician to the use of names of abstract entities, like properties, classes or propositions.
1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. ii. v. 251 A residue of untraced words which have led some scholars..to postulate a *non-Indo-European strain in the early vocabulary. 1965W. S. Allen Vox Latina i. 13 Many of the words..are probably non-Indo-European.
1899Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XXVIII. 17 A practically *non-inductive wire resistance. 1957G. Ryle in C. A. Mace Brit. Philos. in Mid-Cent. 259 Pure mathematics is a non-inductive..science.
1938Mind XLVII. 247 It is this aspect of Dr. Myers' essay that is of interest to the *non-industrial reader, though there is much of value in it about the prevention of accidents in industrial occupations.
1909Webster, *Noninfectious. 1956Nature 21 Jan 131/1 The purified protein alone was found to be non-infectious. 1965McKeown & Brown in Glass & Eversley Population in Hist. xii. 291 Infectious and non-infectious cases.
1956Nature 18 Feb. 304/1 Extracts from infected plants contain a range of specific proteins that resemble the virus..but are not infective... Beans appear to contain an unusually large proportion of *non-infective protein. 1971Brit. Med. Bull. XXVII. 9/1 It may have a predominantly non-infective allergic origin.
1897B. Russell Essay on Foundations of Geometry ii. 61 This element must be *non-inferential. 1935Mind XLIV. 48 The last phrase suggests a less positive stand in regard to the non-inferential apprehension of the objective.
1849D. Campbell Inorg. Chem. 71 *Non⁓inflammable gas is prepared by distilling in a retort fragments of phosphorus with a solution of potash in alcohol. 1936Discovery Apr. 106/2 Helium gas is used as a non-inflammable substitute for hydrogen in balloons and airships. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 476/2 Both achieved by in-situ foamed non-inflammable urethane.
1837J. S. Mill Let. Sept. in Wks. (1963) XII. 350 Our *non-inflected language. 1928Mod. Lang. Rev. Apr. 136 Then we shall have two genitives in English, one inflected and one non-inflected.
1924H. E. Palmer Gram. Spoken Eng. 81 All other classes of qualificatives..form the comparative..and superlative by the *non-inflexional method. 1940Mind XLIX. 436 The syntax of the Aryan languages differs fundamentally from that of non-inflectional languages, in particular Chinese.
1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Britain ii. 286 He gives substitution by AS. i, y, or e in all cases, apparently not considering Pr.W. stressed ï in *non⁓initial syllables. 1965Language XLI. 453 Medial (i.e. noninitial and nonfinal) dissyllabic sequences.
1962Listener 20 Sept. 436/2 The differences between insightful and *non-insightful problem-solving behaviour.
1968M. S. Livingston Particle Physics ii. 18 The *non⁓integral atomic weights were explained as isotopes.
1897W. James Will to Believe 11 Evidently..our *non⁓intellectual nature does influence our convictions. 1946Mind LV. 51 This, so far as it depends on denying the possibility of other sorts of non-intellectual intuition than the sensible, is certainly dogmatic.
1957N. Chomsky in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 41/2 Our ultimate aim is to provide an objective, *non-intuitive way to evaluate a grammar.
1960Suppl Oxf. Med. Treatment of Disease VIII. 804 *Non-involved. 1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm xv. 434 A signal for potential future sexual difficulties is..a distant, non-involved relationship with the father.
1946Nature 14 Dec. 876/2 Physiological effect on man: *non-irritant. 1963J. Osborne Dental Mechanics (ed. 5) i. 9 It [sc. the impression material] should be non-irritant to the mouth tissues.
1860Wharton Law Lex. (ed. 2), *Non issuable pleas, those upon which a decision would not determine the action upon the merits, as a plea in abatement.
1935Huxley & Haddon We Europeans iii. 96 In each country the Jewish population overlaps with the *non-Jewish. 1973Guardian 17 Apr. 15/8 The Passover meal, to which non-Jewish passengers like me were invited.
1965M. Morse Unattached i. 44 His impartial and *non⁓judgemental attitute. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVI. 224 Low authoritarian subjects are..flexible and nonjudgmental.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment iii. iii. 317 The Cabinet has capitulated to the rabbis and no *non-kosher meat will be imported into Israel. 1968D. Hopkinson Incense-Tree iv. 38, I was considered by Jews to be a Jewess. Accordingly I ought not to..eat non-kosher food.
1849Balfour Man. Bot. §921 *Non-lactescent herbs or undershrubs.
1930R. A. Fisher Genetical Theory of Natural Selection iii. 64 With *non-lethal mutants..a process of modification of the homozygote may be expected to commence. 1965H. Kahn On Escalation xii. 234 The ‘nonlethal central confrontations’..were not repeated.
1955P. Strevens Papers in Lang. & Lang. Teaching (1965) ix. 118 The *non-lexical effects arise chiefly from the absence of a system of interdependent stress and intonation. 1971Archivum Linguisticum II. 131 The terms Pre-article and Post-article can be used when talking about arrangements of non-lexical formatives in surface structure.
1927Mod. Philology Nov. 217 An ear trained to other languages will hear differences between the [t]'s of [tik, stik, botr, bit] which are not distinctive, that is, in English *non⁓linguistic. 1956J. Whatmough Language 7, May ‘thought’ be not merely sub-linguistic, but also non-linguistic, or both? 1960W. V. Quine Word & Object 270 Discourse about non-linguistic objects would have been an excellent medium. 1971D. Crystal Linguistics 72 Modern linguists..do not want to gear their descriptions to non⁓linguistic standards of correctness.
1889Granta 17 May 9/1 To a *non-literary man, like myself, the post of Editor offered temptations well-nigh irresistible. a1943R. G. Collingwood Idea of Hist. (1946) 258 Non-literary sources, such as coins and inscriptions. 1965English Studies XLVI. 256 These three themes are all copiously illustrated with quotations, the vast majority being drawn from non-literary sources.
1908Westm. Gaz. 3 Feb. 2/2 He has in three weeks done all that any *non⁓local candidate could do. 1965English Studies Apr. 140 Non-local forms of their names can hardly..affect the outcome of an investigation.
1831Brewster Optics Introd. 1 *Non-luminous bodies are those which have not the power of discharging light of them⁓selves.
1829Phil. Mag. VI. 146 This ore is remarkable on account of its being entirely *non-magnetic. 1903Non-magnetic [see oersted b]. 1968C. G. Kuper Introd. Theory Superconductivity ii. 22 Since the normal phase has been assumed to be nonmagnetic gn is independent of the field.
1884Britten Watch & Clockm. Handbk., *Non-Magnetizable Watch.
1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 475 Its frequent occurrence in *non-malarious places.
1956J. E. Floud Social Class & Educational Opportunity i. i. 7 In South West Hertfordshire the *non-manual occupations are much better represented.
1946Nature 31 Aug. 299/1 The *non-marine Lamellibranchs have become of extreme economic importance in the correlation of seams in British and Continental coalfields. 1965G. J. Williams Econ. Geol. N.Z. xviii. 324/2 The non-marine Orauea mudstone consists in the lower part of grey to brown sandy mudstone.
1937R. H. Lowie Hist. Ethnol. Theory vii. 83 Tylor's mistake sprang from the difficulty of applying the evolutionary scale to elements of *non⁓material culture. 1967Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer ii. 41 E.D.P. offers both the low data input error rate and the non-material manipulation required.
1847A. De Morgan Formal Logic xii. 232 The terms by which the *non-mathematical logician indicates his degrees of belief. 1937Mind XLVI. 38 The rejection from the interpretation of nature of everything non⁓mathematical. 1973Sci. Amer. Apr. 103/3 Nonmathematical scholars tend to view with profound indifference the tortures that mathematicians suffer over such basic issues as the nature of number.
1920A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation 4 What you are comparing it with is not some *non-measurable ideal of length, but some attainable, or at least approachable, ideal of material constitution. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. vii. 128 The only legitimate distinction between ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ qualities is that between measurable qualities..and non-measurable qualities.
1855H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. iii. ix. 416 The *non-mechanical sequences occurring in them [sc. organisms]. 1939L. H. Gray Found. Language 144 Language..has two aspects: physiological or mechanical, and psychological or non⁓mechanical.
1834Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 818 The most important facts of the human organization, explained in a manner peculiarly well suited..even to *non⁓medical readers. 1967Non-medical [see non-addictive above].
1902W. Bateson Mendel's Princ. Heredity p. xiii, *Non-Mendelian phenomena. 1968H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm i. 7 Where there is good evidence that the specifications for a particular characteristic are encoded in cytoplasmic DNA, as, for example, in the case of the chloroplast, genetic analysis reveals a non-mendelian or cytoplasmic form of inheritance.
1878W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 62 It is perfectly possible to express the existence of interests in *non-mental terms. 1936Mind XLV. 182 From these three assertions, it would immediately follow that a mental act, in being experienced, is an -ed as well as an -ing, that is to say, is non-mental as well as mental. 1959Encounter Jan. 3 It prepares the philosophical student for the belief that mind has some kind of supremacy over the non-mental universe. 1973N.Y. Times 22 Aug. 1/6 The Secret Service continued today to press its investigation of what was described as a ‘very serious, very large’ conspiracy by ‘nonmentals’ to assassinate President Nixon during his visit to New Orleans yesterday.
1936L. Bloomfield in Language XII. 95 Now let us re-word the statement in *non⁓mentalistic terms. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory p. xv, The recent attempt of C. F. Hockett to formulate an antimentalistic theory of sound change within the general framework of a nonmentalistic interpretation of autonomous phonemics.
1962R. van Heyningen in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Cataract 400 The interconversion of sugars..can, in certain micro-organisms, enable the incorporation into a major metabolic pathway of an otherwise *non-metabolizable sugar. 1973Nature 9 Mar. 122/2, 3-MG is a non-metabolizable sugar which is transported into brain but does not react with hexokinase.
1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 85 *Non-metaphorical poetry.
1865Mill Exam. Hamilton's Philos. xiii. 249, I ask..whether to the natural, or *non-metaphysical man, it is not as great a paradox [etc.]. 1892W. Wallace tr. Hegel's Logic (ed. 2) 66 In these material, non-metaphysical surroundings, thought is free. 1937Mind XLVI. 120 He lays stress on the resolution made by the Congress to produce an International Encyclopaedia which is to represent in a unified, physicalistic, non-metaphysical terminology the Unity of Science.
1933A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas viii. 142 Geometry, developed in this fashion, has been termed ‘*Non-metrical Projective Geometry’. 1963Times 22 Feb. 16/5 The original non-metrical notation.
1909Webster, *Non-migratory. 1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 171 This occupation of territory [by birds] takes place in..the same way in migratory and *non-migratory forms. 1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 186 That it is independent of species is apparent from comparison of examples such as the brown trout and sea trout, non-migratory and migratory forms respectively of the species, Salmo trutta.
1869Mill Subj. Women iv. 158 Gentleness, generosity, and self-abnegation, towards the *non-military and defenceless classes generally. 1956A. H. Compton Atomic Quest 239 A nonmilitary demonstration. 1965G. McInnes Road to Gundagai i. 20 His decision to pursue what the A.I.F. called Non-Military Employment.
1957N. Frye Anatomy of Criticism 290 Farce, being a *non⁓mimetic form of comedy, has a natural place in the masque.
1959J. L. Austin Sense & Sensibilia (1962) xi. 137 Consider, he says, the statement, ‘I hear a car’. This is *non-minimal, he says. 1966G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising viii. 84 A complete measure of grammatical complexity would require a similar calculation for all non-minimal units.
1875Max Müller Chips IV. 317, I had divided the six great religions of the world into Missionary and *non-Missionary.
1928H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. (ed. 2) i. i. i. 37 Also *non-modal may is frequently attended by emotional perhaps. 1953Mind LXII. 398 The philosophical character of a modal system turns in the first place on which non-modal expressions are flagged as necessary. 1957A. N. Prior Time & Modality 60 The non-modal part of the theory of reference..could be..formalized. 1961Lancet 19 Aug. 435/1 No constant abnormality was observed in the non-modal cells. 1971J. Anderson in A. J. Aitken et al. Edin. Stud. Eng. & Scots 102 Note, however, that the complex modals can have only the future interpretation, as is also the case with their non-modal equivalents.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. viii. 215 Fichte calls it [sc. the soul] the inner body, Ulrici likens it to a fluid of *non-molecular composition. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. vi. 193 Most non-molecular solids give this type of spectrum, but salts do not.
1951R. Firth Elements of Social Organization iv. 133 A *non-monetary economy does provide for a great deal of direct matching of goods and services.
1909Cent. Dict. Suppl., *Non-motile. 1956Nature 11 Feb. 257/2 One of the strains—Proteus X 1—..was under some conditions motile and under others non-motile.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xvi. 421 Music gives us ontological messages which *non-musical criticism is unable to contradict. 1965B.B.C. Handbk. 200 Suggestions for non-musical light entertainment programmes.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. iv. 90 More ordinary *non-mystical conditions of rapture suffice for my immediate contention. 1941Mind L. 128 One would like there to be a uniformity of knowing-power in such straight-forward non-mystical matters.
1879Whitney Skr. Gram. 50 Before another *non-nasal mute or before a sibilant.
1937S. Spender Forward from Liberalism 272 The U.S.S.R. offers the world the example of the *non-national state. 1942L. B. Namier Conflicts 11 A line of independent States arose between Austria and Turkey which, with the backing of Russia, were to become a menace to both these non-national Empires.
1909Westm. Gaz. 2 Sept. 2/1 The country which is..dependent upon intelligent work for *non-native wealth. 1968P. M. Postal Aspects Phonol. Theory vi. 126 When languages borrow large bodies of vocabulary they very often borrow nonnative phonological matrices. 1975Verbatim May 5/2 Nonnative speakers seem to lack the security of being able to admit they are ignorant of a word.
1934Political Q. V. 135 For expressions of *non-Nazi opinion we have to go outside Germany. 1939War Illustr. 9 Dec. 394 Written by a non-Nazi German who was interned in England.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iv. i, Of those remote..necessary causes, I have sufficiently discoursed in the precedent member, the *non-necessary follow.
1885J. Veitch Institutes of Logic xxxiv. 464 Our expectation of recurrence in the future is determined by the condition that we do not know that any negative or destructive cause has been at work. The theory of the Inductive Principle is at once' positive and negative, or rather is positive and *non⁓negative. 1937Mind XLVI. 58 Gödel's procedure of arithmetization consists essentially of the establishment of a one-one correlation between all possible series of symbols belonging to the ‘object language’ (i.e., a certain system of mathematics) and certain non-negative integers. 1966Mathematical Rev. XXXI. 22/1 Representations of natural numbers as sums of nonnegative kth powers.
1957L. Fox Numerical Solution Two-Point Boundary Probl. vii. 180 This involves..a *non-negligible difference correction in the finite-difference equations. 1972Science 27 Oct. 407/1 Account had to be taken of the very small, but nonnegligible, declination motion of the satellite.
1927Haldane & Huxley Animal Biol. ix. 177 In the higher animals, the living capital is locked up in *non-negotiable forms to a much greater extent. 1969Listener 8 May 632/1 These demands are almost always called ‘non-negotiable’, so that the university's offer to negotiate is..meaningless. 1973M. & G. Gordon Informant xxv. 101 About the securities, even the theft of the non-negotiable ones could hurt us badly.
1873C. H. Ralfe Phys. Chem. p. xv, *Non-nitrogenous fatty acids.
1959E. M. Patterson Topology (ed. 2) iii. 49 The only *non⁓null open set is the whole space, and so no separation condition is possible. 1974Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics XIX. 198 Substitution rules are defined as including both deletion rules and rules substituting a non-null element for a term in the Structural Index.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. xxxii. 264 Other instances of *non-numerical functions are afforded by dictionaries. 1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic 68 The analogous use of letters in non⁓numerical fields. 1973Computers & Humanities VII. 173 It conveys an erroneous impression to science students concerning the present state of so-called non-numerical data processing.
1964Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. II. 260 Reeve (1963) working with Artemia salina..showed that it does not discriminate between nutritious and *non⁓nutritious particles when filter-feeding. 1973Sci. Amer. Dec. 66/1 It is then given over to savannas of coarse, non⁓nutritious grasses, bamboo thickets and stands of bracken and other ferns.
1767Phil. Trans. LVII. 435 To swallow it, digest it, and return the *non-nutritive parts back again by the same way.
1945Mind LIV. 4 The theory [of matter] itself contains a large number of highly abstract, *non-observational terms such as ‘atom’, ‘electron’, ‘nucleus’, ‘dissociation’, ‘valence’. 1960W. V. Quine Word & Object 47 He can translate the non-observational occasion sentences.
1850Punch Aug. 57/2 We subjoin a specimen of the two styles of reports, the one official, and the other *non-official. 1970Jrnl. General Psychol. LXXXII. 215 Analyses of a variety of official and non⁓official documents.
1874Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 283 Inferior *non-officinal cinchona barks.
1946Nature 23 Nov. 742/1 (heading) Silicon carbide *non-ohmic resistors. 1973Physics Bull. Dec. 741/1 The final chapter..describes the nonohmic behaviour observed in several semiconductors.
1942Tee Emm (Air Ministry) II. 63 The C.M.E. has passed me ‘fit for *non-operational flying at home’. And the Blitz has started! 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. v. 97 A non-operational definition.
1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior 18 The *non-organic world. 1968C. A. Doxiadis Between Dystopia & Utopia 34 Cities continued to spread in what seems to be a non-organic pattern.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 202/2 In the *non-parasitic species [of arachnids].
1884E. Klein Micro-Organisms & Disease xviii. 169 (heading) Vital phenomena of *non-pathogenic organisms. 1964M. Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 8) ii. 10 Fæcal streptococci resist 60° C. for 30 minutes and non-pathogenic thermophilic bacteria may actually grow at 75° C.
1904W. James Ess. Radical Empiricism (1912) i. 16 These *non-perceptual experiences have objectivity as well as subjectivity. 1963P. Gardiner Schopenhauer ii. 52 Attempts to describe or explain the physical world in non-perceptual terms.
1962B. M. Strang Mod. Eng. Structure viii. 142 Thus, he is eating is non-interrogative, non-negative, non⁓passive, *non-perfective, but is durative. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 34 The behaviour of transitive verbs in non-perfective sentences is exactly parallel to that of intransitive verbs in both perfective and non-perfective sentences.
1922Joyce Ulysses 287 *Nonperishable goods. 1962R. B. Fuller Epic Poem on Industrialization 212 The ‘non-perishables’, chiefly the industrial metals. 1974Times 21 Dec. 9/4 Shop for all non-perishable foods this weekend. 1975Times 9 Dec. 16/6 Non-perishables, such as grain and butter.
1967Punch 27 Dec. 976/1 We can't simply go back one square, trying to apply to Them what our *non-permissive parents practised on Us. 1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm iv. 102 Femininity seemed to be maximized by a parental orientation that was nonpermissive and punitive.
1928D. H. Lawrence Let. 13 Mar. (1932) 711, I feel one still has to fight for the phallic reality, as against the *non-phallic cerebration unrealities. 1973S. Fisher Female Orgasm iii. 69 The female experiences her body as nonphallic, in contrast to the male whose body feelings are saturated with phallic qualities.
1879W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 94 Such relations, represented as *non-phenomenal entities, become thus the bête noire and pet aversion of many thinkers. 1954R. Wells in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 276/1 In that case we invent or postulate some non⁓phenomenal circumstance.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilitarian Philos. (1870) xvi. 243 Only the older utilitarianism..has any sympathy with this *non-philosophical spirit. 1965Language XLI. 511 A nonphilosophical writer like Euripides?
1933L. Bloomfield Language ix. 147 *Non-phonemic, gesture-like features may become fairly fixed. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 22 This is most strikingly illustrated in Zoque, where the impermissibility of many sequences of consonants leads to a non-phonemic transposition of phoneme-order in the event of suffixation. 1965Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics X. 147 The illusion of objective non-phonemic recording.
1964Archivum Linguisticum XVI. 43 The main *non⁓phonetic or non-French features of the graphie occitane. 1973Sci. Amer. Feb. 60/2 Given the nonphonetic nature of the Chinese writing system, it may seem an impossible task to reconstruct how the language was spoken many centuries ago.
1920A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravitation xii. 194 The matter..can only differ in a mysterious *non-physical quality—that of identity. 1957G. Ryle in M. Black Importance of Lang. (1962) 166 All three maintained the doctrine of a third realm of non⁓physical, nonpsychological entities.
1880Haughton Phys. Geog. vi. 266 The *non⁓placental Mammals contain two great subdivisions, viz., the Marsupials and the Monotremes.
1934Webster, *Nonplanar. 1945Jrnl. Inst. Electr. Engin. XCII. i. 163/2 This procedure breaks down if the old circuit cannot be drawn without crossings between some of its branches (‘non-planar’ networks). 1964N. G. Clark Mod. Org. Chem. xviii. 366 This work suggests that the basic units of vitrinite consist of small benzenoid groups joined together... These elongated, non-planar, rather rigid units have a molecular weight of 1000 to 3000.
1925I. A. Richards Princ. Literary Criticism 250 In ordinary, *non-poetic, non-imaginative experience. 1964W. S. Allen in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 7 Sequences of words in the course of non-poetic utterance.
1935Discovery Nov. 316/1 White *non-poisonous pigments. 1968Times 2 Oct. 12/6 Butterflies reared on non-poisonous plants.
1878*Non-polarizable [see polarizable a.] 1966Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. II. xxv. 243 (caption) Upper plot (type A) corresponds to a non⁓polarizable ligand, lower plot (type B) to a polarizable ligand.
1946Nature 5 Oct. 475/1 Compact, *non-porous sorbing media such as wool. 1966A. W. Lewis Gloss. Woodworking Terms 62 Non-porous woods, woods from conifers, i.e. softwoods, which do not contain vessels or pores.
1950Mind LIX. 262 This book..claims to show how the predicative activities of judgment arise out of earlier, *non-predicative forms of awareness. 1964E. Palmer tr. Martinet's Elem. General Linguistics iv. 133 Units which are all capable of assuming predicative and non-predicative functions.
Ibid. iii. 88 An accent with a *non-predictable position.
1946Nature 26 Oct. 590/1 The sera studied were taken from umbilical blood, infants up to the age of eighteen months, and adults in the pregnant and *non-pregnant state, as controls. 1954G. I. M. Swyer Reproduction & Sex vi. 83 The normal non⁓pregnant uterus is approximately 7·5 cm. (3 in.) long.
1904H. Poutsma Gram. Late Mod. Eng. i. i. iii. 130 Both the objects are *non-prepositional. 1933M. Callaway Consecutive Subjunctive in O.E. i. 11 In the Lindisfarne Gospels we find few Consecutive Subjunctives Introduced by Non-prepositional Correlative Particles. 1964E. Palmer tr. Martinet's Elem. General Linguistics i. 15 In the case of linguistics it is particularly important to insist on the scientific and non-prescriptive character of our approach.
1658Phillips, *Non⁓principiate,..not having a beginning.
1864Bowen Logic ix. 295 The petitio principii..consists in assuming..a *non⁓probable principle as probable.
1922*Non-productive [see direct a. 6 f]. 1961Brno Studies in English III. 18 The type to which they belong is a traditional, non-productive one. 1974P. H. Matthews Morphology xii. 221 The formation of breadth is wholly non-productive.
1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 308 An inferior and *non-professional sort of judge called a justice of the peace. 1862Lytton Strange Story I. xxii. 156 Among readers as non-professional as myself.
1946Nature 26 Oct. 578/1 Several departments in the College have *non⁓professorial heads. 1969H. Perkin Key Profession i. 15 Non-professorial tutors and lecturers.
1909Webster, *Non-progressive. 1950B. Russell Unpopular Essays ix. 166 Learning in Babylonia seems..to have become stereotyped and non-progressive. 1973Archivum Linguisticum IV. 7 The action involved is of a continuous nature as is clear..from a comparison with a non⁓progressive future.
1937Mind XLVI. 103 Of course, she could not discuss in detail the question of *non-propositional truth in so short a volume.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. iii. 35 If I may be allowed to use the word assertion in a *non-psychological sense. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic. i. 7 Leibniz..wishes to use the..word [sc. ‘inconceivable’] in what may be termed a ‘non-physchological’ sense.
1946Nature 14 Sept. 381/2 Within the scope of *non-public management lie such special fields as industrial administration, commercial or business administration, [etc.].
1938Mind XLVII. 251 In any case I cannot see any other way of defining a ‘higher’ centre than by saying that it is a class of happenings which facilitate ‘purposeful’ series and inhibit ‘*non-purposeful’ ones.
1926J. S. Huxley Essays of Biologist (ed. 3) i. 41 Apparently purposive structures could arise by means of a *non-purposive mechanism. 1965P. Caws Philos. of Sci. xl. 312 The goal itself may emerge from an originally nonpurposive activity.
1940W. V. Quine Math. Logic 7 To the scientist longing for *non-quantitative techniques,..mathematical logic brings hope. 1971Computers & Humanities V. 317 Quantitative data covering this aspect of the story are supplemented by a narrative based on traditional (non-quantitative) sources.
1909Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 3/1 It is to be conducted on ‘absolutely *non-racial and non-party lines’. 1971Rand Daily Mail 3 Apr. 1/3 We stand for nonracial not multiracial cricket and..believe in selection on merit, irrespective of colour. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 150 It may be that these nonsignificant results were due to the nonracial nature of the communications.
1904E. Rutherford Radio-Activity 397/2 Preparation of *non-radio-active thorium. 1937Discovery Apr. 127/1 An isotope of a non-radioactive element.
1909Webster, *Nonreactive, without inductance or capacity. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors vi. 107 Another non-reactive extrinsic effect is sometimes added to the low-frequency equivalent circuit. 1969Jane's Freight Containers 1968–69 550/1 The braking safety and non-reactive road holding characteristics required by today's operators.
1941Mind L. 163 A difficulty which Price doubts whether any *non-Realistic theory can completely remove is that quite specific statements may be made purporting to be about unperceived objects for the existence of which there is no evidence. 1965J. Lawlor in J. Gibb Light on C. S. Lewis 75 The non-realistic nature of a large part of Shakespearian characterization.
1949Mind LVIII. 3 A ‘determining’ element which qualifies it in some *non-reciprocal way.
1788T. Taylor Proclus II. 181 That which is rectangular, is shewn to be greater than that which is *non⁓rectangular.
1935B. Russell Relig. & Sci. ii. 45 What was unusual or *non-recurrent was assigned directly to the will of God. 1973Univ. Oxf. Ann. Rep. 1970–71 6 The Institute received {pstlg}150 as a non-recurrent supplement to the departmental grant.
1939Mind XLVIII. 399 Russell long ago emphasised that Peano's axioms, for instance, could be satisfied in infinitely many ways by objects other than the integers. The same is true of all *nonredundant sets of axioms. 1972J. L. Dillard Black English iii. 93 Non-redundant tense marking... This system of tense marking persists into Black English today.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. iv. 49 Subject—predicate propositions are distinguished by just this *non-relational character. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic v. 145 The non-relational premiss that all greyhounds are dogs.
1843Mill Logic I. ii. §7. i. 53 The fifth leading division of names is into relative and absolute, or let us rather say, relative and *non-relative; for the word absolute is put upon much too hard duty in metaphysics, not to be willingly spared when its services can be dispensed with. 1934Mind XLIII. 202 Such an independence of non⁓relative properties is what the operationalist theories, with the exception of Mead's, come to.
1930Nature 20 Dec. 954/1 *Non-relativistic wave mechanics. 1970G. K. Woodgate Elem. Atomic Struct. ii. 12 Schrödinger's equation is equivalent to the non-relativistic form of the classical equation of conservation of energy.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. viii. 176 In these *non-religious cases the new man may also be born either gradually or suddenly. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pansies 66 The mind is non-religious. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. v. 109 It would have been possible to use the label ‘religious vs. nonreligious’.
1956Ld. Boyd-Orr in A. Pryce-Jones New Outl. Mod. Knowledge 539 This great accelerating rate of increasing consumption of *non-renewable sources of energy. 1974Guardian 27 Aug. 14/6 Human time..is the ultimate non-renewable resource.
1923Gramophone June 25/2 Music to assert itself has become representational; painting to assert itself has become *non-representational. 1958Times 20 Aug. 11/1 The non-representational third symphony.
1855S. Bailey Lett. on Philos. Human Mind 212 Ideas of a *non-representative character. 1925I. A. Richards Princ. Literary Criticism 159 From Raphael..to Rembrandt..all degrees of participation between non-representative form and represented subject..can be found. 1942W. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 180 The outstanding fact which has so far emerged from the violent action of the Congress Party has been their non-representative character.
a1910W. James Some Probl. Philos. (1911) v. 82 What I am contending for is that the *non-reproducible part of reality is an essential part of the content of philosophy.
1832Planting (Libr. Usef. Knowl.) iii. 33 *Non-reproductive or resinous trees.
1868Swinburne Blake 132 François Villon and Aphra Behn, the two most inexpressibly *non-respectable of male or female Bohemians.
1805Saunders Min. Waters 27 Water..that is impregnated with a *non-respirable gas.
1908Daily Chron. 4 May 3/3 If Socialism was to come in England,..it must needs have come in a slow, quiet, *non-revolutionary, almost invisible way. 1959Brno Studies in English I. 121 The non-revolutionary Fabian standpoint.
1905Tablet 14 Oct. 608/2 Some mission or other that called itself Catholic but confessed itself *non-Roman. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics v. 193 The use of orthographic spaces, or other marks as in some non-roman scripts.
1956Nature 31 Mar. 610/2 Professional advisory service of a *non-routine nature. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Criticism iii. i. 69 The occurrence of error through non-routine operation.
1934Webster, *Non⁓saponifiable. 1946Nature 28 Dec. 950/1 Prelog, Ruzicka and Stein isolated a compound..from the non-saponifiable portion of extracts of pig spleen. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 173 Using alcoholic KOH, lipids may be separated into a saponifiable fraction..and a non⁓saponifiable fraction including the sterols, carotenoids, wax-alcohols, and hydrocarbons.
1875W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 4 (As is almost always the case with *non-skeptical systems) it simply ends by ‘indorsing’ common-sense. 1941N. K. Smith Philos. of D. Hume p. v, This doctrine is the key to the non-sceptical, realist teaching which Hume has expounded.
1865What is Wine vii. 9 A crude and *non-scientific treatment of the must.
1831J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) I. 4 The clergy of a *non-sectarian church. 1937J. M. Murry Necessity of Pacifism v. 81 The Adelphi Centre is a centre of non-sectarian Socialism. 1948E. Waugh Loved One 138 All non-sectarian services expeditiously conducted at competitive prices. 1975G. Seymour Harry's Game xiii. 180 Most of the farmers round were Prods but..the market was ‘non-sectarian’, as they'd say these days.
1927R. H. Wilenski Mod. Movement in Art 95 It was the artist's duty to rival the camera in purely mechanical *non-selective vision. 1958Observer 20 July 21/5 The danger lies in the enforcement of the non-selective principle in the vast majority of schools which will continue as separate units in existing buildings.
1909W. M. Urban Valuation iv. 98 The *non⁓sensational aspects of any experience are..describable in functional terms. 1921B. Russell Analysis of Mind iv. 81 (heading) Non-sensational elements in perception. 1937Mind XLVI. 307 Kant holds that we are never acquainted with existence in a wholly non-sensory way.
1855J. M. D. Meiklejohn tr. Kant's Critique Pure Reason ii. i. 56 The understanding was defined above only negatively, as a *non-sensuous faculty of cognition. 1934Mind XLIII. 364 Locke taught that we can have a non⁓sensuous intuition of agreement and disagreement of ideas.
1939Mind XLVIII. 483 It is full sentences that serve for communication, not isolated or *non-sentential signs. 1966Jrnl. Philos. LXIII. 665 Propositions in a nonsentential sense were unavailable,..so facts seemed all the more needed.
1812Southey Omniana II. 251 The..opinion that animals are *non⁓sentient.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant correspondents, In the latter [sc. puns], I include all *non-serious subjects.
1836–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. II. 432/1 Reproduction may be divided into *non-sexual and sexual.
1960Amer. Speech XXXV. 232 Correlates of Central Romance palatals..are best interpreted as members of a three-way set: plain (*nonsharp).., sharp.., and palatal. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset vii. 80 An anastigmatic lens gives a flat field and corrects any spherical shape of the image area which otherwise is non-sharp towards the edges of the image.
1897Sears, Roebuck Catal. 239/2 Men's heavy winter weight..wool shirts... *Non-shrinkable. 1963A. J. Hall Textile Sci. v. 242 This shrunk non-shrinkable finish is then set by passing it (with drying) around the hot cylinder of a Palmer machine P.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. xi. 411 The ‘difficulty’, in the cases of which Wundt speaks, is that of forcing two *non-simultaneous events into apparent combination with the same instant of time. 1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 44 The fact that the units concerned may occur as units in a functionally discrete sequence is one criterion for treating the units as non⁓simultaneous.
1877Cayley in Encycl. Brit. VI. 724/1 The classification mixes together *non singular and singular curves.
1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Rev. ii. 18 Powerful monopolies develop, which, from being merely *non-social, may become definitely anti-social. 1964M. Argyle Psychol. & Social Probl. xiv. 176 Social structures often change as the result of non-social factors in the situation—technical, economic and so on.
1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment iii. i. 305 The political record of the only strong *non-Socialist opposition Party in Israel is one of frustration and sterility. 1959New Statesman 13 June 833/2 The idea of a planned hospital service had been developed by non-socialist doctors by 1920 (Dawson Report).
1888W. James Let. 22 Aug. in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. of W. J. (1935) II. 86 By the Kantian view..I mean the doctrine of a supersensational construction. For Kant there is a *non-spatial sensational chaos before there is space in the mind. 1897B. Russell Essay on Foundations of Geometry iv. 181 The argument rests on a petitio principii, for only if sensations are necesarily non-spatial does their projection demand a subjective space-form.
1851Phil. Mag. I. 177 Poisson..does not overlook the possibility of these magnetic elements being *non-spherical and symmetrically arranged in crystalline matter. 1971I. G. Gass et al. Understanding Earth vii. 98/1 The uneven attraction of the non-spherical Earth.
1668Wilkins Real Char. 375 The *non-spiritous, or breathless Consonants, P, T, C.
1940S. Glasstone Text-bk. Physical Chem. xiii. 1063 One of the results of *non-stationary chains is the phenomenon of explosion limits. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iii. 173 This is a non-stationary pure birth process.
1922A. D. Udden tr. Bohr's Theory of Spectra II. i. 22 This is of great importance, since it represents the first instance in which the quantum theory was applied to a phenomenon of *non-statistical character. 1949A. Pap Elem. Analytical Philos. ix. 179 We use the word ‘probable’ in a non-statistical sense. 1963Higher Educ. (Cmnd. 2154) 315 The form of government, including financial and other relations with central and local government, with *non-statutory bodies and with industry.
1946Nature 5 Oct. 475/2 He laid the foundation for a fundamental study of the kinetics of dyeing by deriving four differential equations to describe the *non⁓steady state of flow. 1960Times 1 Sept. 2 Application of non-steady flow theory. 1975Sci. Amer. Nov. 81 The muscle-powered flight of birds, bats and insects depends on the flapping of the wings, which introduces a degree of nonsteady airflow. Nonsteady aerodynamics is thus inherent in natural flapping flight.
1946Nature 24 Aug. 275/2 Some years ago, LeBlanc and Eberius reported that in the decomposition of lead dioxide, PbO2, a range of homogeneous oxides of *non-stoichiometric formulae was formed. 1965Phillips & Williams Inorg. Chem. I. viii. 267 There are compounds of the type Fe0·95O, GeTe1·025, Ti1·103S2. Such non-stoicheiometric compounds are found largely amongst minerals, alloys, and those compounds which contain one or more elements giving rise to at least two valence states.
1954U. Weinreich in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 379/2 The interplay of structural and *non-structural factors. 1965Hughes & Londey Elem. of Formal Logic iii. 16 In doing this we have by-passed the non-structural features, i.e. the particular content of the propositions.
1902W. James Var. Relig. Exper. xviii. 433 Logical reason drawing rigorous inference from *non-subjective facts. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon vii. 192 Unless there had been some non-subjective displacement in the timing of events.
1848Johnston in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. vi. 301 The structure of the mouth..proves it to be a *non⁓suctorial insect.
1907J. H. Parsons Diseases of Eye xi. 258 (heading) *Non-suppurative keratitis. 1951Whitby & Hynes Med. Bacteriol. (ed. 5) xv. 273 Prostration is extreme, with..a characteristic non-suppurative arthritis floating from joint to joint.
1849H. L. Mansel Aldrich's Artis Logicæ App. 38 Aquinas..admits the ἔκθεσις as a *non-syllogistic process, being an appeal to the senses, not to the reason. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Apr. 239 This was an effort to present deductive reasoning demands in a nonsyllogistic form.
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. I. ii. 18 There are much greater difficulties in the way of *non⁓symbolic exposition of the ideas embedded in our symbolism. 1933Chapman & Henle Fundamentals of Logic 226 There has been a complete separation between the ‘informal’ non-symbolic postulates and the ‘formal’ symbolic ones. 1961L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Language viii. 182 Features of sound complements (which are, of course, non-symbolic).
1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 155 It [sc. a relation] is *nonsymmetric if there is at least one pair such that R(x, y) and not R(y, x)... Loving is nonsymmetric, as numerous poems testify.
1948H. Reichenbach Elem. Symb. Logic iii. 119 We include both mesosymmetrical and asymmetrical functions in the group of *nonsymmetrical functions. 1955H. Leblanc Introd. to Deductive Logic 188 A relation R is said to be non-symmetrical in a class A if it is neither symmetrical nor asymmetrical in A.
1912,1940*Non-synchronous [see asynchronous a.]. 1971Engineering Apr. 6/1 With synchronous or non⁓synchronous controls.
1953in M. Macdonald Philos. & Analysis (1954) 63 Some clearly *non-synonymous names or predicates apply to exactly the same objects. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic v. 79 The indicated procedure can lead to different, and plainly non-synonymous, translations for the same formal sentence.
1957R. W. Zandvoort Handb. Eng. Gram. ix. i. 283 Such a *non-syntactic group as happy-go-lucky. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax iv. 158 One can cite cases of perfectly grammatical strings that are incongruous on nonsyntactic grounds.
1960*Non-systematic [see impressionistic a. 2]. 1964E. A. Nida Towards Sci. Transl. v. 87 It must be recognized, however, that semantic space may be orthogonal, i.e. regular and systematic, or it may be nonorthogonal, i.e. irregular and nonsystematic.
1949Mind LVIII. 69 This simply begs the central question at issue, viz. whether there can be any necessary *non⁓tautologous propositions. 1955A. N. Prior Formal Logic 139 ‘Analytic’ and ‘synthetic’ are now often used as synonyms for ‘tautologous’ and ‘non-tautologous’ respectively.
1833Arnott (title), Elements of Physics..written..in Plain or *Non-technical Language. 1920A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravit. xii. 180 But this mode of development of the theory cannot be described in a non-technical book. 1944W. Temple Let. 5 Jan. (1963) 132 The non-technical mind of the ordinary Churchman. 1971Engineering Apr. 26/1 He spends his time on non-technical activities.
1949Koestler Insight & Outlook x. 153 Like all means towards an end (or subfunctions in *nonteleological language). 1972M. A. Boden Purposive Explan. in Psychol. v. 180 The nonteleological factors involved may include learnt motor habits.
1924R. M. Ogden tr. Koffka's Growth of Mind v. §1. 244 The images that occur can scarcely be called *non-temporal. 1933A. N. Whitehead Adventures of Ideas xiii. 209 The everlasting nature of God, which in a sense is non-temporal and in another sense temporal. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic v. 132 The words ‘always’, ‘never’, and ‘sometimes’ frequently have a strictly non⁓temporal significance.
1962H. C. Conklin in Householder & Saporta Problems in Lexicography 129 The same segregates may be classed..as terminal or *nonterminal categories in another taxonomy. 1965Language XLI. 292 Certain nonterminal constituents.
1959New Statesman 14 Nov. 661/1 The film was made by the BBC Television Service, and is scheduled for *non-theatric distribution; which means that it will only be seen by film societies and non-paying audiences. 1966BBC Handbk. 39 The distribution of programmes for non⁓theatric use in schools.
1927T. S. Eliot in Newton's Seneca (Tudor Translations) I. p. xi, This curious freak of *non-theatrical drama. 1964F. Bowers Bibliogr. & Textual Criticism vi. i. 160 A non-theatrical manuscript such as an author's ‘foul papers’.
1879Dublin Rev. Apr. 263 It seems to be the wish of the prominent *non-theistic writers of our own day to be called Agnostics. 1964E. Fromm in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 191 Marx's theory..is close to Pelagius' heresy; it is a doctrine of salvation in non-theistic terms.
1962H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon England (1963) vi. 285 Interest was also shown in *non-theological matters.
1943Mind LII. 130 Clearly the outcome of a maze learning experiment is completely devoid of any significance in the latter, *non-theoretical sense. 1963P. Gardiner Schopenhauer v. 216 At a non⁓theoretical level, Schopenhauer suggests, such features of aesthetic awareness are..recognized by sensitive and perceptive persons.
1959D. Cooke Lang. of Music p. xiii, The new *non-tonal language..must be restricted to expressing what chromaticism always was restricted to expressing. 1963Listener 21 Feb. 345/3 Schoenberg went on from there to write first non-tonal and later twelve⁓note music. 1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 111 English, a non-tonal language.
1941J. S. Huxley Uniqueness of Man xi. 235 The T.V.A. in America is perhaps the largest social experiment ever undertaken, at any rate in a *non-totalitarian country. 1967H. Arendt Orig. Totalitarianism (new ed.) ix. 279 Non-totalitarian countries..generally have shied away from mass repatriations.
1946Nature 31 Aug. 294/1 Animal experiments with guinea pigs and rabbits have shown polyporin to be completely *non-toxic. 1971Engineering Apr. 30/1 Since the introduction of plastics enabled the use of non⁓tainting, non-toxic, and non-staining materials.
1938Wyndham Lewis Let. 1 May (1963) 253 A *Non-traditional (and so a ‘fashionable’) policy. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music iii. 169 The term ‘synthetic sound’ is generally used to cover a wide variety of new, non-traditional methods of making noise, sound effects, music, and speech, by electronic, magnetic, mechanical, optical, and other means.
1914B. Russell Our Knowl. External World ii. 48 A relation is said to be *non-transitive whenever it is not transitive. Thus ‘brother’ is non⁓transitive, because a brother of one's brother may be oneself. All kinds of dissimilarity are non-transitive. 1964E. Bach Introd. Transformational Gram. vii. 155 Friend is nontransitive if you are my friend and have friends who are not my friends. 1974Sci. Amer. Oct. 120/1 Familiar games abound in transitive rules (if poker hand A beats B and B beats C, then A beats C), but some games have nontransitive (or intransitive) rules.
1946Nature 14 Sept. 361/2 Another means of attaining greater efficiency in flight..is to design the wing section so that the flow in the very thin ‘boundary-layer’ of air near the wing surface remains *non-turbulent over as much of the surface as possible. 1964J. C. Catford in D. Abercrombie et al. Daniel Jones 30 Airflow through the glottis is non-turbulent and consequently silent.
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. I. iii. 93 When we begin to react in the ‘extreme sensorial’ way, Lange says that we get times so very long that they must be rejected from the count as *non-typical. 1959Brno Studies I. 106 The non⁓typical nature of his [sc. Bulwer's] figures.
1874W. Wallace tr. Hegel's Logic 299 Finite things as finite ought in justice to be viewed as *non-ultimate. 1935Mind XLIV. 351 He ought to say that such facts as ‘orange is between red and yellow’ are incomplete or non-ultimate.
1886G. S. Carr Synopsis Elem. Results Pure & Appl. Math. I. ii. 905/1 (Index), *Non-uniform functions. 1920A. S. Eddington Space, Time & Gravit. ii. 40 An absolute non-uniform motion through space is just as impossible to imagine as an absolute uniform motion. 1968Economist 23 Mar. 48/2 The 40-month contract..reportedly gives workers giant but nonuniform wage increases.
1909Daily Chron. 12 Apr. 4/4, I revisit America and wander off into the *non-urban—there are no really rural—parts. 1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Britain 230 A state of affairs that was essentially non-urban.
a1866J. Grote Exam. Utilit. Philos. (1870) p. xvii, Mr. Mill gives up points objected to in the old utilitarianism, and approximates to *non-utilitarian schools. 1965F. Sargeson Memoirs of Peon i. 10 My grandmother was entirely non-utilitarian, a dreamer.
1939Mind XLVIII. 202 And if s does express a proposition, thereby being subject to *non-vacuous application of this [verification] principle, it could be the case [etc.]. 1965N. Chomsky Aspects of Theory of Syntax i. 39 At least one rule A →x being obligatory for each category A, so as to guarantee that each cycle is nonvacuous.
1881Max Müller tr. Kant's Critique Pure Reason (1896) 323 All those predicates are with regard to intuition *non-valid, entailing no consequences with regard to objects of experience. 1935Mind XLIV. 504 The content of a sentence is said to be the class of its non-valid consequences.
1870H. A. Nicholson Man. Zool. lxiii. (1875) 473 The *non⁓venomous and most typical Snakes.
1919A. Conan Doyle Vital Message iii. 102 Thus though ‘*non⁓veridical’, to use the modern jargon, they do conform to all our canons of evidence. 1942Mind LI. 43 But if there need be no ‘intrinsic difference’..between veridical and non-veridical experiences, then how can you tell, at any given time, whether your perceptual experience is veridical or non-veridical?
1890W. James Princ. Psychol. II. xx. 212 Berkeley..concluded that distance could not possibly be a visual sensation, but must be an intellectual ‘suggestion’ from ‘custom’ of some *non-visual experience. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man xxx. 421 Some lemurs have scent-glands on the fore-limbs; these are common among non-visual mammals.
1933Discovery Sept. 278/1 It is, in fact, not an aposeme to frighten an enemy away..but an episeme, to distract attack from a vulnerable to a fortified or *non-vital region.
1936J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. xiii. 184 There is still left the question of interjectional acts or even *non-vocal behavior. 1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior 192 That there are non-vocal languages is not generally disputed.
1964R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 157 Opposed acoustic features: vocalic, *non-vocalic.
1930Times Educ. Suppl. 15 Feb. 70/2 What was known as *non-vocational education. 1963Higher Educ. (Cmnd. 2154) 317 Courses of a mainly non-vocational character.
4. Prefixed to a n. (or vbl. n.) forming a phrase used attributively, as non-citizen, non-class, non-combat, non-copyright, non-corridor, non-county, non-craft, non-dollar, non-equilibrium (see also sense 1), non-fat (cf. non-fatty in 3), non-food, non-image, non-jazz, non-kernel, non-language, non-league, non-narrative, non-pedigree, non-print, non-profit, non-protein, non-speech, non-structuralist, non-teaching, non-title, non-vintage, etc.; non-association (see quot. 1940).
Occas. such phrases are used predicatively (as in quot. 1956 for non-protein).
1909Installation News II. 180 The standard qualities listed are:— (1) A class equivalent to what is generally designated throughout the trade as *Non-Association Cable. (2) A grade equivalent to that manufactured by members of the Cable Makers' Association, and sold by the latter under the Association's label as Association-made Cable. 1940Chamber's Techn. Dict. 582/1 Non⁓association cable, cable which is not manufactured or designed in accordance with the standards of the Cable Makers' Association.
1906Westm. Gaz. 11 Apr. 10/3 Charming Semi-detached *Non-basement Houses.
1892in Greener Breech Loader 285 [Greener's No. 12 choke-bore] kills on an average at least 20 yards further than a *non-choke bore.
1882Contemp. Rev. Aug. 301 The wish on the part of the *non⁓church people to relieve themselves of all Church questions.
1970East African Standard 2 Jan. 15/2 In the Market Square in Kampala, which is one of the areas proscribed for *non-citizen businessmen, there are several empty shops.
1957R. N. C. Hunt Guide to Communist Jargon xxxii. 111 The ideologists of the imperialist bourgeoisie, hypocritically screening themselves behind a *non-class approach. 1971Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. Apr. 313 Centred on each of these cards was a column of 12 words, one of which was the correct response, the other 11 words being nonclass, low associate, masking words.
1944D. Wecter When Johnny comes marching Home 547 He must also be persuaded that an important job waits for him, either in *non-combat duty or in civil life. 1971Fremdsprachen XV. 209 In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths.
1879Whitney Skr. Gram. 60 The tip of the tongue,..reverted into the loose lingual position by the utterance of a *non-contact lingual element.
1947Penguin Music Mag. Dec. 37 British *non-copyright masterpieces such as David Copperfield.
1908Daily Chron. 31 July 1/7 The door on the *non-corridor side of the train was found open. 1966M. Catto Bird on Wing vi. 93 It was one of those old-fashioned non-corridor trains.
1909Westm. Gaz. 1 May 9/2 Property owned and leased by county and *non-county boroughs. 1963Times 7 June 3/7 It contains a detailed breakdown of the rates levied by the 83 county boroughs and 28 metropolitan boroughs, and there is also a representative selection of 226 non-county boroughs, 219 urban districts and 144 rural districts.
1961Spectator 7 Apr. 474/2 These craft divisions, particularly those between what is considered ‘craft’ and ‘*non⁓craft’ work, are apparently carried much further in Britain than elsewhere.
1958Ann. Reg. 1957 88 Japan was placed on the same footing as other..*non-dollar countries.
1951S. R. de Groot Thermodynamics of Irreversible Processes xi. 220 (heading) *Non-equilibrium thermodynamical functions. 1962Simpson & Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors i. 2 The higher energy states will be empty except in a non-equilibrium condition when an electron is excited to a higher state by some external influence. 1971Nature 17 Dec. 393/1 Nonequilibrium thermodynamics, as developed by Onsager and others, has been successful in correlating many physical, chemical and biological phenomena.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 335 The embroidery of bobbin-net, called lace-running,..a *non-factory household work.
1969Listener 30 Jan. 159/3 The bonus payments scheme takes into account not merely the important nutrients in milk (protein, vitamins and minerals, commonly known as the ‘*non-fat solids’) but also fat content, which doesn't matter a hoot to anyone who doesn't want to make butter or cheese.
1946Nature 7 Sept. 324/1 Possible *non-food industrial utilizations of the wheat protein. 1974Index-Jrnl. (Greenwood, S. Carolina) 19 Apr. 1/5 Sharply higher food prices and a record jump in nonfood commodities pushed the cost of living up 1.1 per cent in March.
1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 96 And a thousand more *non-Gospel phrases.
1853R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge (1893) 291 D—n you, sir, I'll fight you, sir, any *non-hunting day you like, sir, except Sunday.
1953Kirk & Othmer Encycl. Chem. Technol. XI. 139 The moisture film produced on the plate is continuous on the *nonimage areas of the plate. 1964Gloss. Letterpress Rotary Printing Terms (B.S.I.) 9 Blacking up, printing of the non-image areas.
1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz viii. 168 The orchestrations for bands, jazz and *non-jazz are almost as important as the song plugger himself. 1958P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xv. 189 His fault at the moment..is his quick switching from jazz to non-jazz phrasing.
1963Amer. Speech XXXVIII. 295 *Nonkernel, derived sentences such as ‘The man is on the corner’.
1936J. R. Kantor Objective Psychol. Gram. vi. 74 B's action may be connected with a *non-language response—namely, handing over the book. 1946C. Morris Signs, Language & Behavior 6 The differences between non-language and language signs.
1938C. E. Sutcliffe et al. Story of Football League 12 The boycott of *non-League clubs..was withdrawn. 1963Times 28 Jan. 3/3 Nairn county, another non-league club still in the competition, came down from the Highlands on Saturday to cause a surprise by holding Hamilton Academicals, leaders of the second division, to a draw. 1975Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 11 Jan. 8/3, I cannot recall..so many non League clubs doing so well [in the F.A. Cup].
1884Law Rep. 14 Q.B. Div. 262 Persons who were doing on *non-market days that which they could only do legally on market days.
1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sci. 237 It shows the written language in use in *non⁓narrative registers.
a1687Petty Pol. Arith. i. (1691) 26 Jews, and *Non-Papist Merchant-Strangers.
1880Standard 15 Dec., Mr. Fawcett's..speech..was..almost entirely of a *non-party character.
1931Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Aug. 620/4 Others in favour are the Border, the Lakeland, the Fox, the Sealyham (but with these two it is generally specified that they must be ‘*non-pedigree’ or ‘old type’). 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 85/3 The few non-pedigree cattle on offer were of moderate class and sold to 130gs.
1971Computers & Humanities VI. 96 Such classes of material as technical reports, government documents, and microforms and other *non-print media. 1972Guardian 5 Dec. 9/7 The shift to non-print means of communication—television, the telephone.
1942Agenda Oct. 305 The T.V.A...is required by statute to give preference to States, counties, municipalities, and *non-profit co-operative associations. 1972Accountant 28 Sept. 389/2 The interest rates are high, being 11 per cent for a with-profit policy and 10 per cent for a non⁓profit policy. 1974Spartanburg (S. Carolina) Herald 25 Apr. C. 2/5 Kawamura's laboratories are in the Mitsubishi Chemical Co.'s nonprofit Institute of Life Sciences which it set up in 1971 at a cost of $6·6 million.
[1934Webster, *Nonprotein, n.] 1946Nature 2 Nov. 610/1 The now demonstrated ability of ruminants to utilize non-protein nitrogen in the form of urea. 1956Ibid. 28 Jan. 190/2 Binkley..obtained a soluble fraction..which was apparently non-protein in nature. 1967Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. V. 159 The biochemical analysis of marine invertebrates, especially their content of macromolecules..and reserves (lipids, carbohydrates, non-protein nitrogenous compounds (NPN)).
1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 26 The breech-block is linked to the body and mounted on a *non-recoil carriage.
1846Penny Cycl. Suppl. II. 234/1 The *non-restraint system [in asylums].
1954F. G. Cassidy Robertson's Devel. Mod. Eng. iv. 54 The phonetician..must include the entire range of speech sounds... Pike would have him investigate *non⁓speech sounds too.
1953C. E. Bazell Linguistic Form 5 The earlier distinction of morpheme and semanteme is obsolete except in *non-structuralist circles.
1893Times 25 Apr. 9/3 The total produce of *non-tax revenue would be 85,000 more than last year.
1959New Statesman 21 Feb. 259/3 Hours are wasted each week in administrative, *non-teaching duties such as special staff meetings, frequent house meetings, tutorial group meetings.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. II. 39/2 Other small *non-thoroughfare courts, some⁓times called blind alleys.
1973N.Y. Times 28 Jan. 21/2 This is a *nontitle fight and there is no weight restriction on heavyweights.
1836Pusey in Liddon Life Pusey (1893) I. xviii. 421 He argues..against the *non-transmission doctrine.
1953D. Parry Going Up—Going Down vi. 318 At dinner Clive ordered up four bottles of *non-vintage champagne. 1959Listener 5 Mar. 422/1 Bratby is here, of course, a non-vintage work half way between the ‘larder’ period and what is happening at his current exhibition. 1975Country Life 2 Oct. 838/3 No non⁓vintage champagne may be sold until it has been a year in bottle.
5. a. Prefixed to an infinitive, as non-act = not to act, to refuse, neglect, or omit to act.
1645*Non-act [see non-consent].
1818Bentham Ch. Eng. Catech. Exam. 294 Keeping eyes shut or open at pleasure, to *non-answer or false answer to questions.
1846De Quincey Wellesley Wks. 1858 VIII. 28 A war administration, that ever feebly misapplied or lazily *non-applied the resources of a mighty empire.
1676W. Hubbard Happiness of a People 40 The civill power..ought to *non-licentiate him that shall take upon him..to prescribe to the people poysonous Drugs.
b. Prefixed to an infinitive forming a phrase used attributively in the sense ‘that does not―’, ‘that is designed not to―’, as non-crease, non-crush, non-dazzle, non-shrink. Cf. non-skid a., non-slip a., non-stick a.
1944A. Thirkell Headmistress ix. 200 Utility non⁓crease (though they were neither) ready-made dresses. 1969Punch 5 Feb. 195/1 You should wear non-crease clothes.
1924Times Trade & Eng. Suppl. 29 Nov. 247/2 It must be remembered that the heavy weight non⁓crush costume linens absorb an enormous quantity of flax in spinning. 1961Times 4 Dec. (Agric. Suppl.) p. iii/5 An optional extra to be combined with a non⁓crush cab.
1962Times 5 May 9/4 A non-dazzle protective covering for our remaining pictures. 1965Economist 27 Feb. 929/2 An alternative pair of non-dazzle lamps..[for] meeting other traffic.
1962J. T. Marsh Self-Smoothing Fabrics xv. 256 The anti-shrink effect so often ignored by later publications on non-shrink processes. a1963L. MacNeice Astrology (1964) vii. 237 The Zodiac..signs are featured..in advertisements for..non-shrink cottons.
6. a. Prefixed to ppl. adjs., as non-articulated, non-aspirated, non-associated, non-budding, non-centralized, non-ciliated, non-classified, non-clogging, non-coloured, non-committed, non-corroding, non-defining, non-dividing, non-fabricated, non-fattening, non-flying, non-glottalized, non-graphitizing, non-growing, non-increasing, non-interacting, non-introduced, non-ionized, non-ionizing, non-living, non-medullated, non-nasalized, non-overlapping, non-palatalized, non-playing, non-polarized, non-polluting, non-proliferating, non-recurring, non-referring, non-reflecting, non-scripted, non-slaveholding, non-specialized, non-teaching, non-terminating.
Such compounds are very common in scientific use.
1861Bentley Man. Bot. i. iii. §3 When a leaf separates from the stem, it either does so by decaying upon it, when it is said to be *non-articulated; or [etc.].
1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. i. iii. 42 The *non-aspirated mediae are treated differently from the aspirated mediae. 1964E. A. Nida Toward Sci. Transl. vi. 132 In one language in Central Africa there is a contrast between aspirated and nonaspirated consonants.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 78 Surrealism may conveniently be defined as the free grouping together of incongruous and *non-associated images. 1974Information Handbk. 1974–5 (Shell Internat. Petroleum Co.) 85 Non-associated gas — either from structures capable of producing only gas economically or from condensate reservoirs which yield relatively large amounts of gas per barrel of light liquid hydrocarbons.
1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 186 A *non⁓azotized animal or vegetable substance.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 69 The lateral *non-budding polyps of the branch.
1893G. B. Shaw Let. 11 Jan. (1965) 377 My present intention is to go uncompromisingly for..*non-centralized local organization of the Labor Party.
1956Nature 3 Mar. 432/1 A well-defined zone of *non-ciliated epithelium which lies along the medial sides of the lips of the endo⁓stylar groove [in Ciona intestinalis].
1958New Statesman 19 Apr. 494/1 The Columbia Inspection Project, a private, *non-classified study of disarmament techniques. 1973A. Price October Men x. 136 He is in charge of the non⁓classified printed material—newspapers, periodicals and journals.
1910Daily Chron. 12 Mar. 8/5 A truly efficient *non-clogging lubricant has been used. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 16 Feb. 106/2 Automatic recoil-starter eliminating the use of loose starting rope; special non⁓clogging, fast-cutting blades, 18 in. cutting width.
1962E. Cleaver in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 15/1 Blue eyes, long straight blonde hair, and *non-colored skin. 1964S. M. Miller in I. L. Horowitz New Sociology 306 That can be done most effectively by outsiders—non-colored, non-poor—coming into the impoverished areas.
1901R. Fry Let. 14 Mar. (1972) I. 180 Shannon, coming to such design from the Impressionist side,..goes off into vague *non-committed tastefulness. 1970Non-committed [see non-alignment].
1908Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 9/3 As evidence of their *non-corroding quality specimens are shown in glass bottles immersed in water uninjured. 1967E. Chambers Photolitho-Offset xii. 189 The turntable consists of a non-corroding alloy.
1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 314, I poured off the *non⁓crystallised liquor.
1926Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage 635/2 The closer connexion between a defining, (or that-) clause & the antecedent than between a *non-defining (or which-) clause & the antecedent. 1970Dict. Sci. Biogr. I. 250/2 His [sc. Aristotle's] distinction..between defining and non⁓defining characteristics.
1876Clinical Soc. Trans. IX. 167 The tissue having become firm, even, and *non-discharging.
1945Koestler Yogi & Commissar iii. iv. 242 *Non-dividing organic constituents (proteins, enzymes, hormones, etc.).
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel ix. 561 A *non-enquiring acquiescence in doubt, which is the peril of this day.
1701Norris Ideal World i. v. 279 The supposed exception..according to the rule makes the affirmation hold the more strongly in the *non-excepted instances.
1939Mind XLVIII. 170 The first objection asserts that all universals are fabricated, and no *non-fabricated universals exist.
1971Woman's Own 27 Mar. 30/2 It's expensive to eat *non⁓fattening foods.
1941N. Macmillan Air Strategy 53 Safeguarding the health and efficiency of the *non-flying personnel.
1849Noad Electricity (ed. 3) 240 The *non-galvanized rabbit wheezed audibly, and made frequent attempts to vomit.
1949E. A. Nida Morphology (ed. 2) 287 The contrasts in such changes are..glottalized, *non⁓glottalized. 1973Word 1970 XXVI. 6 A regular interchange..between nonglottalized and glottalized stops.
1693Oxford Act ii. 11 For Graduates, and *Non-graduated... the Gall'ries are reserved.
1951*Non-graphitizing [see graphitizable a.]. 1971Nature 30 July 306/2 The graphitizable carbon fibres probably have superior tensile properties..than the equivalently heated non-graphitizing carbon fibres.
1937Discovery June 173/1 The *non-growing tip must have some control over the growing region below it. 1968H. Harris Nucleus & Cytoplasm iii. 54 In cells growing exponentially, ribosomal RNA appears to be essentially stable, and in non-growing cells, it turns over at a very much slower rate than the rapidly labelled RNA.
1671J. Flavel Fount. Life ii. 3 The glorious condition of the *Non-incarnated Son of God.
1962D. R. Cox Renewal Theory i. 3 Clearly {scrF}(0) = 1, {scrF}(∞)= 0 and {scrF}(x) is a *non-increasing function of x.
1951A. C. Ewing Fundamental Questions Philos. vi. 125 The same substance appearing under parallel *non⁓interacting aspects. 1962W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics viii. 170 For the case of non-interacting particles..eq. (8.1.1) may be integrated to yield the collisionless Boltzmann equation.
a1661Fuller Worthies Shropshire iii. (1662) 3 They have flourished the owners thereof, by an *noninterrupted succession, from the time of King Edward the Confessor.
1957R. W. Zandvoort Handbk. Eng. Gram. v. ii. 217 Note the following example of a *non-introduced clause (with so): I paid him double, I was so pleased. 1966English Studies XLVII. 262 The non-introduced type is normal in adjunct clauses and verbs, and in adjunct clauses to adjectives.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXVIII. 15/1 In the case of non⁓electrolytes and of all *non-ionized molecules this analogy completely represents the facts, and the phenomena of diffusion can be deduced from it alone. 1963B. Fozard Instrumentation Nuclear Reactors viii. 78 Thus glow transfer can be caused by applying a negative pulse to the cathode of the non-ionized gap. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. iii. 39 At the physiological pH of body fluids, drug molecules exist as a mixture of the nonionized or uncharged molecular form and the ionized or charged form.
1903Nature 3 Dec. 103/2 If *non-ionising solvents like the hydrocarbons be substituted for water, the absence of effects attributable to ionisation might be discernible. 1968M. S. Livingston Particle Physics iv. 83 Nonionizing neutral particles..were assumed also to be produced.
1926J. S. Huxley Ess. Pop. Sci. 261 For Haldane, regulation places organisms in a different category from any *non-living systems. 1971J. Z. Young Introd. Study Man ii. 14 It is not enough to base our biology only on familiar concepts with which we describe the non-living world.
1861H. Kingsley Ravenshoe xxxvii, A *non-marrying man, as the slang goes.
1881J. Ross Treat. Dis. Nervous Syst. I. i. i. 22 (heading) *Non-medullated nerve-fibres. Ibid. 23 A fatty material of a very special character accumulates in the interior of the protoplasm..in order to account for the development of the medullated from the non-medullated fibres (Ranvier). 1949J. B. Speakman in J. M. Preston Fibre Science xvi. 277 Turning..to non-medullated fibres, Chamberlain found that the sulphur content of human hair, which had been descaled..was identical with that of the original untreated hair. 1962Gray's Anat. (ed. 33) 50 Fibres with a myelin sheath are described as myelinated, medullated or white. Those devoid of it are termed unmyelinated, amyelinated, non⁓medullated or grey fibres.
1953K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. in Early Britain 642 (Apparently) *non-nasalised spellings are found in MW. beside nasalised (non-nasalised even occurring in later MSS. when the earlier MS. copied has nasalised).
1843Pereira Treat. Food & Diet. 36 That *non nitrogenised foods alone are incapable of supporting animal life.
1873Spencer Stud. Sociol. iii. 61 Minute *non-nucleated portions of protoplasm.
1950Mind LIX. 202 The division is exhaustive and *non-overlapping. 1968P. A. P. Moran Introd. Probability Theory iv. 185 A set function, ϕ (A). is said to be σ-additive on a σ-field, if ϕ (σAi) = σ ϕ(Ai) for every finite or enumerable set of non-overlapping sets Ai such that ϕ (σAi) is bounded.
1801Davy in Phil. Trans. XCI. 399 The wire from the *non-oxidating surface.
1956Jakobson & Halle in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 348/2 Consonants: palatalized vs. *non⁓palatalized.
1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. x. 187 Their shape so much resembles the Sea Ears, that most authors..call them *non-perforated Sea Ears.
1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 122 The pigmented cells are widest at their inner, the *non-pigmented at their outer ends.
1898H. E. Byers in W. A. Morgan ‘House’ on Sport 206 The *non-playing men alternately shout their approbation and make heavy bets. 1958Atlantic Monthly Nov. 184/2 One solution is to..subsidize a trip to the movies for the nonplaying members of the family. 1959Times 11 Sept. 9/3 The British team's non-playing captain.
1826Hood Irish Schoolm. ix, Below he wears the nether garb of males, Of crimson plush, but *non-plushed at the knee.
1876Preece & Sivewright Telegraphy iii. 60 A *non-polarized relay..is not much used in England. The forms of relay more largely used are called polarized, because their armatures are either permanent magnets or are maintained in a magnetized condition. 1946Nature 30 Nov. 794/2 The erythrocytes become dipoles..and form chain-like aggregates... Sedimentation-rates of such red-cell aggregates will be greater than those of single non-polarized blood cells.
1967Economist 8 July 107/3 Tenants in some rural areas had to prostrate themselves at a safe, *non-polluting distance on the one day they saw their Brahmin landlord, rent day. 1974Listener 14 Feb. 212/2 What is needed is..cycleways and encouragement for people to use this non-polluting form of transport.
1622in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 64 Not onely for a help for the *Non preaching, but withall for a pattern..for the Preaching Ministers.
1885Spectator 10 Jan. 51/2 The cynical and unprincipled, or at least *non⁓principled, time of which he writes.
1761Chron. in Ann. Reg 101 At Malta the bailiff Marulli has just made a call of all the knights professed and *non-professed.
1946Nature 21 Dec. 900/1 The processes listed are mainly brought about by *non-proliferating suspensions of bacteria or yeasts.
1797Monthly Mag. III. 266 The qualifications, which entitle a person to be a candidate for the medals, wholly preclude the *non-reading men from a competition. 1824Gradus ad Cantabr.
1780Chron. in Ann. Reg. 262/2 Many..killed themselves with drinking *non-rectified spirits.
1910Daily Chron. 7 Mar. 1/7 They did not mix up recurring and *non⁓recurring expenditure. 1973Ann. Rep. Curators Bodl. Libr. 1971–2 49 A total balance of {pstlg}1,614 from special non-recurring grants for stock-piling.
1957A. N. Prior Time & Modality 61 Genuinely *non-referring names..are excluded. 1963F. T. Visser Hist. Syntax I. iii. 236 Another [construction] of very recent introduction, in which it is non-referring.
1946Nature 21 Sept. 422/1 The anti-reflexion or *non-reflecting thin transparent film deposited on the surface of the lens. 1962L. S. Sasieni Optical Dispensing x. 271 Coating the lens surfaces with a non-reflecting coating. 1974Country Life 21 Mar. 659/2 The black non-reflecting surface.
1684E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. ii. (ed. 15) 138 The rest of his Majesties established Forces..being *non-regimented.
1836J. M. Gully Magendie's Formul. (ed. 2) 130 *Non⁓saturated hydrochloric acid.
1972P. Black Biggest Aspidistra iii. iv. 179 The *non-scripted shows made an important contribution to the art of radio. 1973Nation Rev. (Melbourne) 31 Aug. 1453/1 Lonesome cowboys is a collection of heads playing themselves in non scripted situations.
1819Deb. Congress U.S. 17 Feb. (1855) 1235 A line..shall divide the slaveholding from the *non-slaveholding States.
1909S. & B. Webb Break-up of Poor Law I. i. 11 Here and there we meet exceptionally gifted natures, whose faith and love..enable them..to withstand the deadening influence of the *non-specialised institution. 1964M. A. K. Halliday et al. Linguistic Sci. 37 ‘Context’..thus corresponds roughly to ‘meaning’ in the general, non-specialized sense of the term.
1853R. S. Surtees Soapey Sponge lxiii. (1893) 337 The *non-sporting inmates of Non⁓such House.
1868Carpenter Microscope §570 (ed. 4) 729 The ‘smooth’ or *Non-striated form of Muscular fibre.
1963Times 5 Feb. 6/3 Other factors are {pstlg}880,000 for aid to pupils and {pstlg}621,000 for *non-teaching staff. 1975Listener 4 Dec. 757/2 Non-teaching Fellows and professors.
1936Mind XLV. 105 Popper, indeed, recognises that falsification, too, is a *non-terminating process. 1966Ogilvy & Anderson Excurs. Number Theory x. 121 Therefore if the irrationals have continued fraction expansions (and indeed they do), these must be nonterminating.
1776Da Costa Elem. Conchol. iv. 80 Univalves, in which they comprehend both the *non-turbinated and turbinated.
1864E. Yates Broken to Harness xxxii, The first drops..causing an immediate consternation..among the *non⁓umbrellaed spectators.
1892J. Tait Mind in Matter (ed. 3) 336 Bipeds and quadrupeds, winged and *non-winged beasts.
b. Prefixed to combs. formed with ppl. adjs., as non-English-speaking, non-habit-forming, non-information-carrying, non-interest-bearing, non-profit-making, etc.
1866Aitken Pract. Med. II. 43 In the *non-beer-drinking countries.
1949M. Mead Male & Female xvi. 330 The division of labour among *non-English-speaking immigrants. 1975Nature 20 Feb. p. xiv/1 (Advt.), The work..involves..language correction of contributions written by non-English-speaking authors.
1877Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 66 The..*non-gold-producing strata of serpentine.
1933Radio Times 14 Apr. 112/2 This pleasant, gentle laxative..is *non-habit-forming. 1949M. Lowry Let. 16 Feb. (1967) 169 One or other of the non-habit-forming barbiturates should be often used in preference to strychnine or chloral. 1974M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xi. 198 Virtually all of these nonbarbiturate compounds have been initially promoted as being nonhabit-forming.
1967Cox & Grose Organiz. Bibliogr. Rec. by Computer iv. 85 These are a set of words which the user defines as *non-information carrying words.
1937E. Snow Red Star over China vi. 233 Some $70,000 in *non-interest-bearing loans had been invested by the Government in the co-operatives. 1959E. Pound Thrones ciii. 85 Trying (T.C.P.) 50 years later to keep some of the non-interest-bearing etc. in circulation as currency.
1888Bryce Amer. Commw. II. App. 640 The *non-office-holding delegates from the same States.
1933Planning I. viii. 11 A *non-profit-making organisation for this purpose could probably obtain a large interest in British farming. 1971Guardian 16 Dec. 1/8 A railway porter..has been told to stop his non-profit making early-morning hot drink service to passengers.
1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. vi. §3 Slave-grown will exchange for *non-slave-grown commodities [etc.].
1837J. C. Calhoun Sp. Wks. 1864 III. 118 The people now receive the notes of *non-specie-paying banks.
7. Prefixed to gerunds and vbl. ns., as non-accompanying = failure or neglect to accompany.
1573Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 227 For *nonaccumpaneing him to ane raid.
1657Burton's Diary (1828) II. 37 The clause about the *non-alienating the revenue was read.
1657Baxter Pres. Thoughts 8 The *non-apostatizing of the Elect.
1683J. Corbet Free Actions iii. xxxiii. 52 The *non-ascertaining of an Event doth not render it impossible.
1444Paston Lett. I. 50 [He] is right sory of the matier that is cause of your *noun comyng hedir.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 532 Her [the Virgin's] *non-conceiving of humane seed.
1564Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 304 For *non desisting of the landis of Castellwod.
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 14 §34 It shall not be lefull..to enter into..anny Landes..for the *non doing not naminge or none fyndinge of anny such preist.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. (1848) 35, I could never suspect that the *Non-employing of their thoughts could be their Choice rather than their Punishment.
1525Sc. Acts Jas. V (1814) II. 298 In caiss of *Non⁓finding souirtie.
1901Essex Herald 9 Apr 2/4 Many of the cases are for *non-labelling margarine.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI 49/2 Charged in defaute of *non-makyng of the said pavement.
1472–5Ibid. 155/2 If any Custumer..be necligent..in *noon pakkyng of the same Clothes.
1650Weekes Truth's Conflict i. 25 If everlasting life imply *non perishing.
1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 160 Whos neclygence in *non-Punyshynge of hare nacionys and Subiectes.
1571–2Reg. Privy Council Scot. II. 125 For *non-putting the said Maister Allane Stewart to libertie.
1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 27/1 For ye *nounreceivyng of ye saide ordre.
1538Aberd. Reg. XV. 651 (MS), The *nonredding of his buycht [= booth].
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 30 The greate wronges..quhilk we haue suffred..in vpberyng, maynsweryng, *nounredressyng of Attemptates.
a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) I. 94 By the *non-regarding of God men rush into evil.
1791Paine Rights of Man (ed. 4) 15 A law not repealed continues in force..because it is not repealed; and the *non-repealing passes for consent.
1533Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. VI. 131 Lettrez..to be send to my lord Maxwell for *non-ryding on the bordouris.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 14 He had so sharply dealt with Mr. Marshall for *non-syllogizing.
1833Chalmers in Mem. (1851) III. 409 We had as much talk as his *non⁓understanding of my dialect could admit.
1681Wood Life 3 July, His dispensation for *non visiting and not circuiting.
8. Prefixed to adverbs, as non-adaptively, non-contentiously, non-denumerably, non-enzymatically, non-enzymically, non-inferentially, non-relativistically, non-spatially, non-uniformly, etc.
1931Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXII. 126 The reaction is not adaptive. It is one in which the past..does not function; or if it does function at all, it does so inefficiently, *non⁓adaptively.
1885Manch. Exam. 28 Mar. 5/4 Everything is plain when it is looked at *non-contentiously.
1945E. T. Bell Devel. of Math. (ed. 2) viii. 171 *Non-denumerably infinite classes of rational numbers. 1965B. Mates Elem. Logic viii. 141 The question thus arises whether one could find a consistent set of sentences that is satisfiable only by interpretations having non⁓denumerably infinite domains. In view of the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem, the answer is negative.
1953Adv. in Protein Chem. VIII. 169 Labelled amino acids may combine *nonenzymatically with certain proteins in other ways than through sulfur linkage. 1974Nature 4 Jan. 4/1 The inhibitory alcohol also reacts, non-enzymatically, with the antennal protein.
1962H. Heath in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism Rel. Catatact 366 Glutathione readily and *non-enzymically reduces dehydroascorbic acid to ascorbic acid.
1875J. H. Collins Metal Mining 105 The steam is used *non-expansively.
1860A. De Morgan On Syllogism 214 *Non⁓inferentially and immediately seen. 1956J. O. Urmson Philosophical Analysis iii. 42 Now some of these philosophers..inferred the existence of such things as God, substance, universals, the ego, which they did not claim to be non-inferentially discoverable.
1879Thompson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §107 A symmetrical cup..when..set spinning *non-nutationally.
1814Sir R. Wilson Priv. Diary (1862) II. 308 It is..believed to have been printed *non-officially by the connivance of government.
1957Bethe & Salpeter Quantum Mechanics of One- & Two-Electron Atoms i. xix. 97 We treat the electron *nonrelativistically throughout.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant correspondents, Subjects serious in themselves, but treated..*non-seriously.
1882Vines tr. Sachs' Bt. 235 The new plants..have the power..of propagating *non-sexually by the formation of gonidia.
1934Mind XLIII. 299 What confronts the mind, in this sense..is (perhaps *non-spatially) there to be found, or haply to be found out, by searching.
1873Leland Egypt. Sk. Bk. 37 He shook his head *non-understandingly.
1893Harkness & Morley Treat. Theory of Functions iii. 72 A *non-uniformly convergent series may be continuous. 1969Listener 2 Jan. 11/1 Stars generally spin non-uniformly, rotating faster near the equator than at the pole.
1882Minchin Unipl. Kinematics 181 Energy of *non-vortically moving Liquid.
Add:[3.] non-governˈmental, not belonging to or associated with a government (abbrev. NGO s.v. *N II. 1 b; see also quango n.).
1920A. C. Pigou Econ. of Welfare iii. iv. 388 The facts..do not warrant us in supposing that local non-governmental Boards would fail if tried on the less completely unionised soil of the Continent. 1967A. Pifer in Ann. Rep. Carnegie Corp. N.Y. 3 In recent years there has appeared on the American scene a new genus of organization which represents a noteworthy experiment in the art of government... We may call it the quasi nongovernmental organization. 1980Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVIII. 501/2 WWF is an international foundation, wholly non-governmental.
non-insulin-dependent Path., designating or pertaining to a type of diabetes which usually develops in adulthood, and is characterized by the presence of some insulin secretion, and which can therefore frequently be managed by diet and hypoglycaemic agents.
1979Diabetes XXVIII. 1041/2 Type II, noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus... frequently presents with minimal or no symptoms referrable to the metabolic aberrations of diabetes. 1990Q. Jrnl. Med. LXXVII. 1209 Femoral neuropathy is more common in non-insulin-dependent diabetic men, on average in their sixties.
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