ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)

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1483.  [see UNDISPOSED ppl. a. 5].

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1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), II. 508. The keeping of the rule of action … in one immense and unorganic mass, undistributed.

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1869.  Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, viii. 280. Their journeys are usually undistributed and instantaneous. They set out, and … arrive.

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  b.  Logic. (See DISTRIBUTE v. 6.)

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1827.  Whateley, Logic (ed. 2), 93. You will then have either the middle Term undistributed, or an illicit process. Ibid., 96. Another … is an allowable mood in the third Figure; but in the first it would have an undistributed middle.

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1864.  Bowen, Logic, vii. 193. It is a Negative with an undistributed Predicate.

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