ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. G. unarticulirt, Sw. oarticulerad.]

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  1.  Not articulated or distinct.

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a. 1700.  Ken, Hymnarium, Poet. Wks. 1721, II. 25. God from the Moment we draw breath,… Our words, when unarticulated, hears.

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1823.  Lamb, Let. Old Gentl., Misc. Wks. (1871), 451. That unarticulated language, which was before the written tongue.

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1840.  Willis, Loiterings, II. 139. The touching attitudes and utter abandonment of all around to their unarticulated devotions.

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  2.  Not jointed; not fitted together.

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1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. VII. xiii. 399. The egg encloses a short unarticulated embryo.

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a. 1894.  C. H. Pearson, in Stebbing, Life (1900), 77. A cupboard full of unarticulated human bones.

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