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▪ I. unˈbottomed, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8.]
1. Having no bottom; bottomless. Also fig.
1615Sylvester Tobacco Battered 192 Tobacco's smoakie Mists Which..No small addition of Adustion fit Bring to the smoak of the Unbottom'd Pit. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) World's Eighth Wonder Wks. ii. 67/1 The nine and forty wenches, water filling, In tubs vnbottom'd, which was euer spilling. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 405 Who shall tempt with wandring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite Abyss? 1704Moderat. Displ. x, From Faction's dark unbottom'd Cell I come. 1778Conciliation 7 Mir'd and flound'ring in th' unbottom'd Pit. 1802Leyden Mermaid 44 If, from the unbottom'd deep,..The sea-snake heave his snowy mane.
b. fig. Unfathomable.
1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 150, I will no longer..make my ignorance a sounding-line for his [God's] unbottomed wisdom.
2. Having no proper foundation; unsupported; not founded on or in something.
1640Gauden Love of Truth (1641) 21 For errour is so feeble and unbottomed, that it must have some butresses and seeming basis of truth to support it. 1650Ashmole Chym. Collect. Prol. 3 Others there are, who out of Ignorance or Mistake, have delivered blinde and unbottomed Fictions. 1675H. More in R. Ward Life (1710) 272 The Question,..whether there be no Love unbottomed on Self-love? 1742Young Nt. Th. viii. 801 Can joy, unbottom'd in reflection, stand? And, in a tempest, can reflection live?
▪ II. unˈbottomed, ppl. a.2
[un-2 8.]
Deprived of a bottom or foundation; unsettled.
1674Penn Christian Quaker i. xxv. 126 Thus is this Man Unravel'd, Unreligion'd, Unbottom'd as to his former State. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. iii. (1849) 263 You are your own deceivers in it,..and are not careful to have your souls really unbottomed from themselves, and built upon Christ. |