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unˈbalanced, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not balanced or equably poised:
a. Of the mind, judgement, etc., or persons in respect of these.
1650Bp. Hall Cases Consc. (ed. 2) 388 Wherein yet I cannot much blame an unballanced judgement, whiles I find the Septuagint contrary to themselves. 1737Pope Hor. Epist. i. vi. 25 Thus good or bad, to one extreme betray Th' unbalanc'd Mind, and snatch the Man away. 1882J. Parker Apost. Life I. 62 We know what he has been up to this time, ardent, impulsive, unbalanced, enthusiastic, cowardly. 1886A. Weir Hist. Basis Mod. Europe (1889) 111 Interference with the old order was so far-reaching, that the minds of all were quite unbalanced.
b. Of material things.
1732Pope Ess. Man i. 251 Let Earth unbalanc'd from her orbit fly. 1784Cowper Task v. 40 No needless care, Lest storms should overset the leaning pile Deciduous, or its own unbalanc'd weight. 1835Court Mag. VI. 192/1, I was several times unbalanced, and on the very point of being hurled backward into the gulf. 1901Feilden's Mag. IV. 442/2 A running test of 16 hrs. with an average unbalanced load of 3,000 lbs.
c. fig. or transf. in various senses.
1712Blackmore Creation iii. 487 Then would unbalanc'd heat licentious reign. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxxxii, Thou, who never yet of human wrong Left the unbalanced scale. 1855Bain Senses & Int. ii. ii. §9 The variegated aspects of the fields and gardens..have more beauty than the unbalanced verdure of the leaf. 1879R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 91 He hated those who possess valour unbalanced by the observance of propriety. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 333 Deviation takes place in the opposite direction through the unbalanced action of the healthy muscles on the unparalysed side.
2. Of an account: (see balance v. 14).
1828–32Webster, Unbalanced,..not brought to an equality of debt and credit. 1902Daily Chron. 25 Nov. 6/2 Complicated, confused, and unbalanced accounts. |