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Webster 1828 Edition


Unsolid

UNSOL'ID

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Adj.
1.
Not solid; not firm; not substantial; as unsolid arguments or reasoning; an unsolid foundation.
2.
Fluid.

Definition 2024


unsolid

unsolid

English

Adjective

unsolid (comparative more unsolid, superlative most unsolid)

  1. Not solid.
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I.:
      By this idea of solidity is the extension of body distinguished from the extension of space:--the extension of body being nothing but the cohesion or continuity of solid, separable, movable parts; and the extension of space, the continuity of unsolid, inseparable, and immovable parts.
    • 1921, Theodore Graebner, Evolution:
      And equally unsolid is the argument that from a principle of gradation in races would reduce a principle of progress in races.