a. (UN-1 7.)
1661. Rust, Origens Opin., 79. The matter she [sc. the soul] is then surrounded with being all of that unvital temper.
1837. Whewell, Hist. Induct. Sci., III. 129. Lavoisier showed that the atmospheric air [contains] an unvital air, which he thence called azot.
1854. E. G. Holland, Mem. J. Badger, x. 171. Some dry and unvital difference in theological belief.
1865. M. Arnold, Ess. Crit., i. 23. A sphere perfectly unvital, a sphere in which spiritual progression is impossible.
Hence Unvitalness.
1661. Rust, Origens Opin., 69. Purged from all material unvitalness or mortality.