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Nonrecurrent.

Want of due regard; disregard; slight. [Obs.] Shak.

A master of arts whose regency has ceased. See Regent.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The nonrendition of a service which is due. S. E. Dwight.

Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.

The state or condition of being nonresident, Swift.

Not residing in a particular place, on one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

The principles or practice of a nonresistant; passive obedience; submission to authority, power, oppression, or violence without opposition.

Making no resistance.

Not making resistance.

Not ruminating; as, a nonruminant animal.

Unsound; not perfect; as, a person of nonsane memory. Blackstone.

Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur, but especially certain words which it is desired to recollect, and arranging them without reference to anything but the measure, so that the rhythm of the lines may aid in recalling the remembrance of the words.…

Without sense; unmeaning; absurb; foolish; irrational; preposterous. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ly, adv. -- Non*sen"si*cal*ness, n.

Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.

Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter.

Not possessing or holding slaves; as, a nonslaveholding State.

Failure of solution or explanation.

Inability to pay debts; insolvency.

Not solvent; insolvent.