1. Not extended or stretched out.
1648. Hexham, II. Ongereckt,… Vnreached, or Vnextended.
1697. Congreve, Mourn. Bride, III. vi. Think on to-morrow, when thou shalt be torn From these weak, struggling, unextended arms.
1712. Blackmore, Creation, VII. 75. See his right hand he unextended keeps.
1757. Johnson, Lett. to C. O’Connor, 9 April, in Boswell. Of these provincial and unextended tongues, it seldom happens that more than one are understood by any one man.
2. spec. Having no extension.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 33. Nor is All-fillingness any more unextended,… because ’tis not thing enough to be recht out.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 20. 20. Aristotle … did suppose Incorporeal Substance to be unextended, and as such, not to have Relation to any place.
1764. Reid, Inquiry, vii. 210. I appeal to any man of common sense, whether extension can be in an unextended subject.
1803. Monthly Mag., XV. 322. If … spirit be defined an active sensitive unextended formless substance.
1860. Mansel, Proleg. Log. (ed. 2), 49. An unextended colour is therefore a purely negative notion.
So Unextendedly adv., -ness.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 16. If … Gods eternity not be an everlasting now, and his immensity an unbounded unextendedness.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 823. Such considerations … as tend directly to prove, that there is something unextendedly incorporeal.
