The corpus record — Latin

incompositus

incompositus · adj

Not compounded

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Where it lives

Adversus Hermogenem 3 · 2.7/10k
De Baptismo 1 · 2.34/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Historiae 3 · 0.58/10k
De Ira 1 · 0.45/10k
Institutio Oratoria 7 · 0.41/10k
Res Gestae 5 · 0.39/10k
Ab urbe condita 16 · 0.31/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant

in-compŏsĭtus — Lewis & Short

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.: incompŏ-sĭtē, without order, disorderly: veniens, Liv. 25, 37, 11.—Of speech: qui horride atque incomposite illud extulerunt, without order, Quint. 10, 2, 17.

In the wild

incomposite Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.25.37.11
incomposite Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.8.6
incompositos Tacitus, Historiae 2.43
incomposito Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 15.4.8
incompositos Vergil, Georgicon 1.350
incomposite Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.2.17

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