a. [f. SPACE sb.1 + -LESS.]
1. That is not subject to or limited by space; infinite, boundless. Freq. coupled with timeless.
1606. J. Davies (Heref.), Sir T. Overbury, Concl., Wks. (Grosart), II. 20/1. They can giue no grace Beyond the span of life: Poore spacelesse-space!
a. 1618. Sylvester, Little Bartas, 564, Wks. (Grosart), II. 90. Nor may we aske, What th’ eviternall-One, That space-lesse Space could find to doe alone.
1819. Blackw. Mag., V. 323. There timeless, spaceless, dwells the Eternal One.
1874. Contemp. Rev., XXIII. 403. The timeless and spaceless Essence.
1880. H. Drummond, Ideal Life, etc. (1897), 69. By going away He was in a spaceless land and in a timeless eternity.
2. Occupying no space.
1825. Coleridge, Aids Refl. (1858), I. 394. If we exclude space…, the time remains as a spaceless point.
1874. Geo. Eliot, Coll. Breakf.-P., 116. A need That spaceless stays where sharp analysis Has shown a plenum filled without it.
