unˈcrystallized, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1759 Sterne Tr. Shandy i. xxiii, A dark covering of uncrystalized flesh and blood. 1794 R. J. Sulivan View Nat. I. 467 The spherical..masses called geodes, are also crystaline, though they are, as it were, externally uncrystalized. 1830 Herschel Study Nat. Phil. 242 The division of bodies into crystallized and uncrystallized, or imperfectly crystallized. 1874 Garrod & Baxter Mat. Med. 277 Amorphous quinine, which bears the same relation to the crystallized alkaloid as uncrystallized syrup does to ordinary sugar. |