untheoretic

It was a falling back upon the undefined untheoretic rules of truth and piety which lay upon the surface of the Bible, and a determination rather to die than to mock with unreality any longer the Almighty Maker of the world.

The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) James Anthony Froude 1856

The most untheoretic persons are aware of this relation between true emotion and particular facts, as opposed to general terms, and implicitly recognize it in the repulsion they feel toward any one who professes strong feeling about abstractions — in the interjectional “Humbug!” which immediately rises to their lips.

The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

Her mind rushed back with a new attraction towards the strong worldly sense, the dignified prudence, the untheoretic virtues of her godfather, who was to be treated as a sort of Agag because he held that a more restricted form of government was better than the Great Council, and because he would not pretend to forget old ties to the banished family.

Romola George Eliot 1849