God receiveth the learned and unlearned, and casteth away none, but is indifferent unto all.—Homilies: Exhortation to the Reading of Holy Scripture.
If overseer of the poor, he [the good parishioner] is careful the rates be made indifferent, whose inequality oftentimes is more burdensome than the sum.—Fuller, Holy State, b. ii. c. 11.
Come Sleep, O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
The indifferent judge between the high and low.
Sir P. Sidney, Astrophel and Stella, 39.
Requesting that they might speak before the senate, and be heard with indifference.—Holland, Livy, p. 1214.
That they may truly and indifferently minister justice.—Book of Common Prayer.
Individual. Properly not capable of division; indivisible, as is an atom; then, undivided, inseparable, and so used in the quotations which follow. We, using ‘individual’ as = person, have in fact recurred to the earlier meaning.