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  • adjective Not computed.

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un- +‎ computed

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Examples

  • During all those vast periods of uncomputed time, covering the world's primeval history, there was an utter absence of life until the chief upheavals of the outer strata of our globe, now constituting the principal mountain chains of its well-defined continents, occurred.

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • It will be apparent to the religious mind of this country and England, if not to that of Mr. Tyndall himself, that, if the exegetical rendering we have extended to the Bible be correct, there is no necessity whatever for the vast uncomputed periods of time intervening the different geological strata, to which that scientific gentleman refers in his fanciful musings upon the Matterhorn!

    Life: Its True Genesis R. W. Wright

  • In the midst of this uncomputed need Flint-Goodridge is ministering in the spirit of Jesus Christ, and many who come to find spiritual healing also have their spiritual lives renewed in the fine Christian atmosphere

    Methodist Adventures in Negro Education Jay Samuel 1922

  • You count the cheery word or two that she tosses you as misers count their treasures; and you pocket the change for a five uncomputed.

    Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

  • In such hands, the ass loses his natural attributes, and takes the character of his owner; and as the anecdote-monger is seen astride on his cuddy, you wonder what may be the meaning of the apparition, for we defy you to distinguish the one donk from the other, the rider from the ridden, except by the more inexpressive countenance of the one, and the ears of the other in uncomputed longitude dangling or erect.

    Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

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