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- adjective Not
geometrical .
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Or, perhaps, the erroneous conclusion is due to the drawing of premisses from another science; e.g. in a geometrical controversy a musical question is distinctively ungeometrical, whereas the notion that parallels meet is in one sense geometrical, being ungeometrical in a different fashion: the reason being that ‘ungeometrical’, like
Posterior Analytics Aristotle 2002
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The Stoics, with their stern fatalism, derived their name from the _stoae_, or porticos; the Peripatetics imparted their ambulatory instructions under the plane-trees of the Lyceum -- and Plato reasoned in the Academy, which he held with his school, and into which no ungeometrical mind was to enter.
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She resolved to shut her hot-lidded eyes, but opened them in a little while to torture herself with the knowledge of that ungeometrical thing against the far wall.
A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900
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(The service, in fact, if any, must be to break a sort of first path or track, no matter how rude and ungeometrical.) 61
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(The service, in fact, if any, must be to break a sort of first path or track, no matter how rude and ungeometrical.) We have frequently printed the word Democracy.
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(The service, in fact, if any, must be to break a sort of first path or track, no matter how rude and ungeometrical.)
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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Dear Archimedes, -- Things have gone on badly with thy ungeometrical friend; but they are on the turn.
The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805
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"formal garden," by reason of its initial and continuing costliness, is, and must remain, the garden of the wealthy few, and that the gardening for the great democracy of our land, the kind that will make the country at large a gardened land, is "informal," freehand, ungeometrical gardening.
The Amateur Garden George Washington Cable 1884
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