incompositus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

in-compŏsĭtus, a, um, adj.

I Not compounded , simple , Ambros. Hexaëm. 1, 7, 25; Boëth. Inst. Arith. 1, 17: trinitas incompositae naturae corrumpi non potest, Ambros. Ep. 81, 8.—

II Not well put together , not properly arranged , out of order , disordered , disarranged , discomposed (perh. not ante-Aug.).

A Lit.: agmen, Liv. 5, 28, 7: hostes (opp. compositi), id. 44, 38 fin. : det motus incompositos, Verg. G. 1, 350.—

B Transf., of style: incomposito dixi pede currere versus Lucili, disordered , irregular , Hor. S. 1, 10, 1: fortius quid incompositum potest esse, quam vinctum et bene collocatum, Quint. 9, 4, 6; cf. oratio, id. ib. 32: rudibus et incompositis similia, id. ib. 17: (Aeschylus) rudis in plerisque et incompositus, id. 10, 1, 66: moribus incompositus, id. 4, 5, 10. — Adv.: incompŏsĭtē , without order , disorderly : veniens, Liv. 25, 37, 11.—Of speech: qui horride atque incomposite illud extulerunt, without order , Quint. 10, 2, 17.

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