unextendedadj.
1. Not extended or stretched out.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of stretching body > [adjective] > specific part of body > not stretched
unextended1648
the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [adjective] > spread or diffused > widely > not
unextended1757
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Ongereckt,..Vnreached, or Vnextended.
1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride iii. i. 36 Think on to Morrow, when thou shalt be torn From these weak, strugling, unextended Arms.
1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 315 See his Right Hand he unextended keeps.
1757 S. Johnson Let. 9 Apr. (1992) I. 152 Of these provincial, and unextended tongues, it seldom happens that more than one, are understood by any one man.
2. spec. Having no extension.
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the world > space > extension in space > [adjective] > without extension
inextensed1604
unextended1674
inextended1739
the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > having no extension or position in space
illocal1601
dimensionless1667
unextended1674
indistant1678
unbulky1678
unspatial1865
non-dimensional1884
extensionless1919
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 33 Nor is All-fillingness any more unextended,..because 'tis not thing enough to be recht out.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 20 Aristotle..did suppose Incorporeal Substance to be Unextended, and as such, not to have Relation to any Place.
1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind vii. 210 I appeal to any man of common sense, whether extension can be in an unextended subject.
1803 Monthly Mag. 15 322 If..spirit be defined an active sensitive unextended formless substance.
1860 H. L. Mansel Prolegomena Logica (ed. 2) i. 49 An unextended colour is therefore a purely negative notion.
Derivatives
unexˈtendedly adv.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adverb]
immateriallya1398
incorporeally1626
indistantly1656
intangibly1678
unextendedly1678
impalpably1796
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 823 Such Considerations..as tend directly to Prove, That there is something Unextendedly Incorporeal.
unexˈtendedness n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun] > state of having no extension or position in space
unextendedness1674
illocality1678
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 16 If..Gods eternity not be an everlasting now, and his immensity an unbounded unextendedness.
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