incomposed

English

Etymology

in- +‎ composed

Adjective

incomposed (comparative more incomposed, superlative most incomposed)

1. (obsolete) disordered; disturbed
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book II”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     Thus Satan; and him thus the Anarch old, / With faltring speech and visage incompos'd, / Answer'd. I know thee, stranger, who thou art,

Derived terms

• incomposedly
• incomposedness

References

• “incomposed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.