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unaˈccustomed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not customary; unfamiliar, unusual, strange.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (Pynson) 92 By the reason of their glorious presence and excellent lyght, unaccustomed to the sayd persons. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 452 Such unaccustomed vices, and not everywhere used. 1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 260 Such unaccustomed raynes..hath drowned the greatest parte of new indicoe in the countryes. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. xii. (1674) 15 [He] was met with unaccustomed demonstrations of honour. 1742Gray Propertius ii. i. 27 Nor I with unaccustomed vigour trace Back to its source divine the Julian race. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xvii, At sight of the strange room and its unaccustomed objects she started up in alarm. 1871Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 283 Firmer souls were not only exhilarated, but intoxicated by the potent and unaccustomed air.
†b. Const. to with inf. Obs.—1
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 64 They were wont also to sacrifice a bul to Neptune... But vnto Iupiter it was vnaccustomed to be offered.
2. Not accustomed or habituated. Const. to.
1611Bible Jer. xxxi. 18, I was chastised, as a bullocke vnaccustomed to the yoke. a1680Glanvill Serm. i. (1681) 90 The first steps are roughest to those feet that have been unaccustomed to it. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 82 Your Heart, unaccustom'd to feel any very tender Impressions, felt some Concern for those you have inspir'd me with. 1797S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. (1799) I. 352 Lothaire was unaccustomed to fear. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. ii. 67 The abhorrence of bloodshed is common to all who are unaccustomed to it. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lvii, Familiar with crime, he was unaccustomed to be charged with it.
b. Used (attrib. or absol.) without const.
1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored 170 Phlebotomy is not any wise dangerous to those that are accustomed therewith, but it may prove dangerous to the unaccustomed. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxv, Circumstances that united to elevate the unaccustomed mind of Blanche to enthusiasm. 1859Mansel Lett., Lect., etc. (1873) 192 Quaint as the nomenclature may sound to unaccustomed ears. 1875G. J. Whyte-Melville Katerfelto xix, An unaccustomed horse would have stuck fast up to its girths before it had gone fifty yards.
†3. = uncustomed ppl. a. Obs.
1701Lond. Gaz. No. 3737/4 Liable to be..seized in like manner as Prohibited and Unaccustomed Goods. 1715Ibid. No. 5298/3 Prosecutions..concerning unaccustomed and Prohibited Goods.
Hence unaˈccustomedness; unaˈccustomedly.
1611Cotgr., Desaccoustumance, a disuse, vnwontednesse, vnaccustomednesse. 1659Gentl. Calling 435 The main cause of that disgust men have to this spiritual entercourse, is their unaccustomedness to it. 1866Lond. Rev. 8 Dec. 623 It is permissible when it leads the worshipper to God, and does not, by its unaccustomedness, splendour, or intricacy, interpose itself as a veil between God and him. 1881Mrs. Oliphant in Macm. Mag. Apr. 493/1 He was seated, not in any familiar corner, but with the forlornest unaccustomedness, in the middle of it. 1659Torriano, Unaccustomedly. 1963Economist 2 Nov. 472/1 Unaccustomedly emotional language. 1980H. Curtiss Poisoned Orchard iii. 22 She had put her car away, unaccustomedly, because of the sub-zero temperature forecast. |