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▪ I. unˈhoused, ppl. a.1 [un-1 8. Cf. MDu. ongehuset, MLG. ungehuset, MHG. -hûset.] 1. Not provided with, not lodged in, a house; homeless.
1604Shakes. Oth. i. ii. 26, I would not my vnhoused free condition Put into Circumscription, and Confine, For the Seas worth. 1623Middleton More Dissemblers iv. i, Th' unhous'd race of fortune-tellers. 1649Ogilby Virgil's Georgics iii. 370 Lybian Shepherds..unhous'd Cattel through vast Desarts lead. 1709Pope Lett. (1735) I. 86 The faithful Dog,..Unfed, unhous'd, neglected, [lay] on the Clay. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iv. xiv. 44 Whom unhoused Scythians fear, unconquer'd Spain obeys. 1830Croly Geo. IV, 283 Unhoused beggary, and the hideousness of civil bloodshed, combined and shaped themselves into a colossal power. 1860Longfellow Wayside Inn, K. Olaf xvii. v, Every warlike Dane..Left..Unhoused the cattle. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 210 Their tottering architecture would have sheltered none whom Spinoza's visionary fabric left unhoused. 2. Not occupied by houses.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 96 Heere ye sit embayed with Moors, with Syrtis vnhowsed [L. inhospita Syrtis]. 1611Cotgr., Place, a plaine and vnhoused ground. ▪ II. unˈhoused, ppl. a.2 [f. unhouse v.] Deprived of house or dwelling. Also absol.
1621Sandys Ovid's Met. iv. (1626) 77 The gates still open stand..And as all Riuers run into the Deep: So all vn⁓housed Soules doe thither creep. 1886Pall Mall G. 22 Sept. 6/1 This is a sufficient accommodation for the unhoused in this improvement. ▪ III. unˈhoused, ppl. a.3 [un-1 8: see house v.2] Not covered with a house or housing.
1560[see housed ppl. a.2]. |