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uncemented en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + cemented.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That has not been cemented.
    • The floor was uncemented, and heaps of dust rose in the air anytime a customer walked in. 2006, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, “Mallam Sile”, in The Prophet of Zongo Street, Harper Collins, pages 149–50:
  2. (not-comparable) Not unified, disunited.
    • 1777, Thomas Paine, "V. To Gen. Sir William Howe" in The American Crisis, The Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Moncure D. Conway, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906, http://www.bartleby.com/184/119.html Before the present era she was a mere chaos of uncemented colonies, individually exposed to the ravages of the Indians and the invasion of any power that Britain should be at war with.