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▪ I. unˈformed, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 and 5 b. Cf. MDu. ongeformet, -vormet (Du. -vormd), MHG. ungeformet (G. -formt), NFris. ünfuaremd.]
1. Not formed or fashioned into a regular shape; not invested with any definite form.
a1340Hampole Psalter xxxii. 9 Þai ere fourmyd of vnfourmyd matere. 1382Wyclif Deut. xxvii. 6 Thow shalt bild there up an auter..of stonus vnfourmed and vnpolishid. 1599Daniel Musoph. 951 Who..knows..What words in th' yet unformed Occident, May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours? 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xv. 406 [He] sees Their bodies limme-lesse: these vnformed things In time put forth their feet, and after, wings. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. xii. 55 The unformed matter of the World, was a God, by the name of Chaos. 1712Addison Spect. No. 309 ⁋2 His Passage through the Regions of unformed Matter. 1825Bull-baiting ii. in Houlston Tr. I. No. 28. 6 His head so torn and mangled, that it appeared nothing but a frightful unformed mass of blood. 1855Poultry Chron. II. 571/1 Those amateurs who, like myself, prefer..the breast small and unformed. 1877Caird Philos. Kant ii. i. 203 While matter altogether unformed is a mere abstraction.
b. transf. Of immaterial things: Not brought to a definite or properly developed state; crude.
1689Andros Tracts II. 195 They would..endeavour to prevent what ill effects an Unform'd Tumult might produce. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. 86 Mankind is left, by Nature, an unformed, unfinished Creature. 1774Reid Aristotle's Logic vi. §2 (1788) 144 Every science is in an unformed state until its first principles are ascertained. 1857Buckle Civiliz. I. xiv. 832 The chemical department of mineralogy is in an unformed and indeed anarchical condition. 1880Sayce Introd. Sci. Lang. viii. II. 188 The rude and unformed Bushman and the polished Finnic [language].
c. fig. Of persons (or the mind): Not developed by education or training; unpolished.
1711Addison Spect. No. 66 ⁋2 You can't imagine how unformed a Creature it is. She comes to my Hands just as Nature left her. 1798S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 12 On [him],..in the helplessness of an unformed mind, his sister threw herself. 1856C. M. Yonge Daisy Chain i. xx, Ethel was very queer and unformed, and could do nothing by herself. 1894Mrs. H. Ward Marcella I. 104 Very clever in some ways—and very unformed—childish almost—in others.
2. Not formed or made; uncreated.
a1325Prose Psalter (1891) 194 Vnfourmed is þe fader, vnfourmed is þe sone, vnformed is þe holi gost. c1400Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. xiv. 107 God hymself is nature vnformed and vnwrought that yeueth nature fourmed to euery creature. 1611Cotgr., Informé,..also, vnformed, vnmade, vnfashioned. 1757in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 313 If the New Ministry yet unformed, should subsist. 1794R. J. Sulivan View Nat. IV. 99 Would it not sound strangely to talk of a self-existent house, an uncaused pyramid, an unformed statue? a1824Byron Heav. & Earth i. iii, He broke forth Into the dawn, which lighted not the yet Unform'd forefather of mankind. 1855Poultry Chron. III. 195/2 Lime..is especially necessary for making the as yet unformed bones.
†3. unformed stars (or unformed signs): (see quots.). Obs.
1590T. Hood Use Celestial Globe 34 b, The vnformed starres about the Scorpion. 1638Chilmead tr. Hues' Treat. Globes (1889) 53 This Constellation hath..three unformed..Starres. 1700Moxon Math. Dict., Unformed Signs, such are those that are called Nebulous or Cloudy, scarce to be seen by the bare Eye or Instrument. 1764J. Ferguson Lect. 185 Those stars which lie between the figures of those imaginary animals, and could not be brought within the compass of any of them, were called unformed stars. 1810Vince Elem. Astron. 269.
▪ II. † unˈformed, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8.]
= uninformed ppl. a.
c1400Destr. Troy 760 Lest þe day vs be-daghe..And I vnformet in faith how I fare shall. |