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unˈbitted, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8.]
Not furnished with a bit; unbridled, unrestrained. Also fig.
a1586Sidney Astr. & Stella Sonn. xxxviii, This night while..vnbitted thought Doth fall to stray. 1604Shakes. Oth. i. iii. 335 We haue Reason to coole our raging Motions, our carnall Stings, or vnbitted Lusts. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. xciii. 270 A limitlesse tongue is a strange vnbitted Beast, to worry one with. 1826M. W. Shelley Last Man II. 248 Like a troop of unbitted steeds. 1882Stevenson Mem. & Portr. xii. (1887) 211 The same fatal conflicts of unbitted nature with too rigid custom. |