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unaˈllied, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not allied or related.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. v. 290 The greater their experience,..the greater indisposition it would give them to credit so unallied a truth. 1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. ii. (1703) 85 Extension and cogitation are unallied in their ideas. 1852M. Arnold Empedocles ii. 359 Still Thought and Mind Will hurry us..Over the unallied unopening Earth. 1862Spencer First Princ. ii. xiv. §113 (1875) 323 Year by year are established certain connexions among orders of phenomena that appear unallied.
b. Const. to.
1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1709) 143 'Tis a Principle..absolutely unallied to Reason and Good-nature. 1789Cowper Annus Mem. 59 The eyes that never saw thee, shine With joy not unallied to thine. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, She seemed to be an angel..unallied to the coarser mortals among whom she deigned to dwell for a season. 1864Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. iii. IV. 280 He..regards with sublime pity, not unallied to contempt, all other diplomatic beings.
2. Having no ally or allies.
a1797H. Walpole Geo. II (1847) II. iv. 127 Unallied we could make no diversion to France. 1898Westm. Gaz. 15 Apr. 5/3 Spain..enters upon the conflict unallied. |