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▪ I. unˈfast, a. Now rare.
Also 4 unfest(e.
[OE. unfæst (un-1 7), = WFris. on-, ûnfest, MDu. and Du. onvast, MHG. unvast, MDa. ufast; OHG. unfesti, -vesti (MHG. unveste, G. unfest).]
1. Insecure.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xi. §2 For þæm þe æᵹþer is unfæst, ᵹe seo wyrd ᵹe seo ᵹesælð. c897― Gregory's Past. C. 37. a 1300 E.E. Psalter xvii. 40 Þou tobreddest mi gainges under me, And mi steppes noght unfest þai be. Ibid. xxvi. 4 Mi faas þat are, Þai are unfest and felle sare. 13..Prose Psalter cviii. 23 (Dubl. MS.), Myn knowes beþ vnfast for fastyng. c1584T. Mathew Let. in Life Sir C. Hatton (1847) 407 You be not the first, Sir,..that have found both friends unfast and neighbours unthankful. 1818Todd, Unfast, not safe; not secure. 1883R. W. Dixon Mano i. xiv. 45 Ah, could he but have rent shame's unfast cloak, And seen her heart.
2. Not close or tight.
1648Hexham ii. s.v. Leken, To Leake as unfast Vessels.
Hence unˈfastness, want of firmness. rare.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cl. (Bodl. MS.), Þat treen beþ scharp with pikes & þornes..comeþ of vnfastenes & vnsadnes of þe tre. 1616T. Adams Forest of Thorns Wks. (1629) 1055 Hee would haue it [sc. thorniness] caused by the insoliditie and vnfastnesse of the Tree.
▪ II. † unˈfast, v. dial. Obs.
[un-2 3.]
= next.
1684Meriton Yorksh. Ale Gloss. 112 To unfest is to untye or unloose. |