incommunicating

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English

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Etymology

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From in- +‎ communicating.

Adjective

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incommunicating (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Having no communion or intercourse with each other.
    • 1713, [Matthew Hale], “Touching Trials by Jury”, in The History of the Common Law of England: [], [London]: [] J[ohn] Nutt, assignee of Edw[ard] Sayer Esq; for J. Walthoe, [], →OCLC, pages 255–256:
      [Justices] daily in Term-time Converſe and Conſult with one another; [] and by this Means their Judgments and their Adminiſtrations of Common Juſtice carry a Conſonancy, Congruity, and Uniformity one to another, whereby both the Laws and the Adminiſtrations thereof are preſerved from that Confuſion and Diſparity that would unavoidably enſue, if the Adminiſtration was by ſeveral incommunicating Hands, or by provincial Eſtabliſhments: []

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