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unˈdisciplined, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. G. undisciplinirt, Sw. odisciplinerad.]
1. Not subjected to discipline; untrained.
1382Wyclif Wisd. xvii. 1 For these the vndisciplyned soulis erreden. ― Ecclus. v. 14 Lest thou be take in an vndisciplined wrd, and thou be confoundid. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. v. 1 Like this wyld man, being vndisciplynd. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. Epit. (1612) 357 The Warr-intricated Romaines vtterly left Britaine to the vndisciplind Britons. 1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 46 Their undisciplin'd mind is unable to disabuse it self by an appeal to some sober and enduring principles. 1736Berkeley Disc. Wks. 1871 III. 415 The savage state of undisciplined men, whose minds are nurtured to no doctrine. 1796Coleridge Destiny of Nations 137 She was quick to mark The good and evil thing, in human love Undisciplined. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 19 The passions of the people were then nearly as undisciplined. 1892Westcott Gospel of Life 285 The fancies of undisciplined enthusiasm.
2. spec. Not properly subjected or submissive to military discipline.
1718Prior Solomon ii. 728 Loose and undisciplin'd the Soldier lay. 1792Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 177 The French troops are extremely undisciplined. 1846H. W. Torrens Rem. Milit. Hist. 240 The army..as yet wholly undisciplined by those to whom..new and unwonted authority had been delegated. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage i. 37 The discipline which he enforced on the most undisciplined of his army.
Hence unˈdisciplinedness.
1661Boyle Style of Script. 55 Generous Horses, [acting]..not out of Undisciplinednesse, but purely out of Metall. 1888Abp. Benson in Life (1899) II. 209 The undisciplinedness of the spirit which despised ‘the day of small things’. |