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unˈasked, ppl. a.
Also 6, 9 dial., unaxed.
[un-1 8, 8 c.]
1. Without being asked; not requested or intreated; uninvited.
a1255Ancr. R. 338 Þe hwule þet tu const siggen out [in shrift], seie al unasked. 1456Sir. G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 139 Gyf a knycht..had gevyn a coursour to the Provost of Paris unaskit. 1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 55 In gentil manner thus he soone discoursed, vnasked. 1618J. Taylor (Water P.) Penniless Pilgr. Wks. (1630) 123/1 Master Taylor, at the Sarazen's head, Vnask'd (vnpaid for) me both lodg'd and fed. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. iii. 100 Fair Amyntas comes unasked to me, And offers love. 1710Prior Examiner, To Earl Godolphin 10 Unask'd you offer, and unseen you give. 1746Francis tr. Hor., Sat. i. iii. 3 Sing they can never at a friend's request, Yet chant it forth, unask'd, from morn till night. 1810Crabbe Borough xviii. 56 He shows the shipping;..He makes (unask'd) their ports and business known. 1879Meredith Egoist xxiv, She went to the music rack and gave the song unasked.
†b. Left uninvited. Sc. Obs.
c1730Burt Lett. N. Scot. (1754) II. 204, I have several times been unasked to eat.
2. Not asked for; not made the subject of a request.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 96 Quhat thingis..has sauf condyt be privilege unaskit at the princis. 1529S. Fish Supplic. Beggars (1871) 8 There was giuen theim ynough vnaxed. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 102 Yet hath he..begg'd for that which thou unask'd shalt have. 1618J. Taylor (Water P.) Penniless Pilgr. Wks. (1630) 123/2, I thought it no good manners to refuse, But thank'd him for his kinde vnasked gift. 1658Osborne Jas. I, 53 The Scots, by whom nothing was unasked, and to whom nothing was denied. 1712Addison Spect. No. 357 ⁋10 Adam..expostulates with his Creator for having given him an unasked Existence. 1751Warburton Pope's Wks. IX. 247 note, To the issue of that unasked and unsought compliment these words allude. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose x, He delivered his unasked opinion as follows. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 426 Indeed I thought That news of ill unasked would soon be brought.
b. Similarly with for.
1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1733) II. 117 The unask'd-for bounty and downright generosity of this benefactor. 1861Lady Lyttelton Let. 15 Dec., The Queen..sent me an account on the 10th (unasked for..) through Lady Augusta Bruce. 1876T. Hardy Ethelberta xxxvi, An unasked-for concession to their cause. |