Uncemented

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1717.  Berkeley, Jrnl. Tour Italy, 28 May, Wks. 1871, IV. 552. Parched pasture, amidst wall of huge uncemented stones grown rough with age.

1841.  W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., I. 312. Some huge fragments of uncemented blocks.

1850.  Ruskin, Stones Ven., I. vi. § 2. With all the joints, perhaps uncemented, or imperfectly filled up with cement, open to the sky.

  b.  transf. and fig.

1783.  Beattie, Theory Lang., II. iv. 480. This uncemented composition has of late become fashionable among the French and their imitators.

1792.  Charlotte Smith, Desmond, II. 53. That, uncemented by blood, the noble and simply majestic temple of liberty will arise.

1856.  Merivale, Rom. Emp., xxxix. (1865), IV. 379. The state itself has seemed … to become a mere collection of uncemented atoms.

1864.  Pusey, Lect. Daniel (1876), 412. Subdued, but warlike nations, uncemented into one with the conquering empire.