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unˈbridled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongebreidelt.]
1. fig. Not restrained or held in check; absolutely uncontrolled or ungoverned:
a. Of conduct, feeling, utterance, etc.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 429 He..in hym self wiþ manhod gan restreyne, Eche rakel dede and eche vnbrydled chere. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 2433 Vnbridlid wordes ofte man by-weepiþ. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. 2019 No cher vnbridled þat tyme hir asterte. c1530Remedy of Love Prol., Seeing the manifolde inconuenience Falling by vnbrideled prosperitie. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 4 We reade of none that euer did breake forth into more presumptuous and vnbridled despising of God, than Caius Caligula. 1590Swinburne Testaments 200 By this meane to restraine the vnbrideled lusts of some. 1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 120 After the concupiscences of the belly, commeth vnbridled irreuerence. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 273, I go on to shew you the unbridl'd impudence of this loose rayler. 1711Steele Spect. No. 38 ⁋5 When we give the Passion for Praise an unbridled Liberty. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 99 A wild unbridled indulgence of his own humour and disposition. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxi, His flights are too unbridled for any place but Parnassus. 1855Paley æschylus Pref. (1861) p. xxiii, To keep in check the otherwise unbridled passions of a fickle multitude. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. iii. 25 note, An alarming example of what the unbridled rule of the multitude may come to.
b. Of persons, the mind, tongue, etc.
a1547Surrey Paraphr. Ps. lv. 13 Rayne those vnbrydled tungs; breake that coniured league. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 56 b, When he had once tamed and framed to his purpose this young unbrideled gentleman. 1581A. Hall Iliad iv. 69 After our vnbrideled youth coms sage and wrinckled yeares. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. iii. ii. 130 My thoughts were like vnbrideled children grow[n] Too head⁓strong for their mother. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 37 Nævius was quickly cast into prison for his unbridl'd pen. 1676Hobbes Iliad i. 322 That they may be To Gods and Men, and to th' unbridled man My witnesses. 1840Alison Hist. Eur. VIII. liii. §39. 433 The usual..intemperance of the unbridled populace of great towns. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. I. xviii. 517 They were exposed, without defence, to the fury of an unbridled soldiery.
c. Of natural forces.
1814Wordsw. Brownie's Cell 64 Towers rent, winds combating with woods, Lands deluged by unbridled floods.
2. Not furnished with a bridle.
1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 16 They are all vnbrideled, hauinge neither withe nor coller aboute theyr neckes. 1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 315 They fel on running like vnbridled horses, through the middest of the thickest woods. 1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini, Pol. Touchstone (1674) 253 That unbridled Horse which the State bears for her Ensign. 1694Motteux Rabelais iv. xlviii. 188 An unbridled Mule, with green Trappings. 1798Hull Advertiser 8 Sept. 1/4 Our picquets were attacked; this caused some bustle, as our horses were all unbridled. 1841Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 27 Pride, clothed in a lion's skin, rushes forward on an unbridled horse. 1872Head Sel. Grk. Coins Brit. Mus. 16 The unbridled horse may be a symbol of Liberty.
Hence unˈbridledly adv.; unˈbridledness.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 37 Yet the boldnesse of Sophisters could not be restrained by them from babling *vnbrideledly. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 211 Yet true it is, that humane things (seem) slide Unbridledly with so uncertain tide [etc.].
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. v. 5 With howe muche more *unbrydlednesse his enemies ronne royet. a1639W. Whately Prototypes ii. xxvi. (1640) 65 The unbridlednesse of your evill natures. a1684Leighton Comm. 1 Pet. v. (1819) II. 322 The presumption and unbridledness of youth require the pressing and binding on of this rule. |