1728. Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Elasticity. The Difference between Elastic and Unelastic Bodies.
1764. Reid, Inquiry, vi. § 21. Are the small vessels distended with some redundant elastic or unelastic fluid?
1826. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., IV. xlvi. 259. A hard unelastic substance like wood.
1861. Beresf. Hope, Eng. Cathedr. 19th C., 14. An unelastic law of parochial subdivision and endowment.
Hence Unelasticity. (Webster, 1847.)
1764. Medical Museum, III. 241. For it is said gold will by pressure admit through its pores any water that is inclosed in it.
This is said to prove the unelasticity or incompressibility of water.
