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† unˈcompt, a. Obs.
[un-1 7 and 5 b.]
1. Of persons: Not neat in dress or appearance.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 247 The cited to appeare in Court, came in humble manner,..attired in black, uncompt, undrest. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xli. 104 Nor was this the originall trick of the rude and uncompt Germans, or Barbarous Britons, but of the wise Greeks.
2. Of style: Incompt, inelegant, unpolished.
1633Prynne Histriomastix 925 Whenever I fell to read the Prophets after I had beene reading Tully and Plautus,..their uncompt stile became irkesome to me. |