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unˈpractised, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not familiarized or skilled by practice; inexperienced, inexpert.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia i. (1895) 49 Your newe made and vnpractysed soldiours. 1562A. Brooke Romeus & Jul. 1416 A wise mans wit vnpractised doth stand him in no steede. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. i. 12 But I am..skillesse as vnpractis'd Infancie. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 207 To harden their unpractis'd modesty. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 380 Of so little consequence are the most destructive arms in untutored and unpractised hands. 1805Wordsw. Prelude v. 589 In his youth..in that raw unpractised time. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. vi. II. 143 The most unpractised eye at once perceived that they were taller..than their successors. 1890Retrospect Med. CII. 109 The unpractised operator is far less likely to do harm with the forceps than with version.
b. Const. in.
1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iii. xx. 131 These are..altogether unpractis'd in that Civility. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 614 The latter brood, who just began to fly, Sick-feathered and unpractis'd in the sky. 1759Hume Hist. England I. 96 Albany..was totally..unpractised in their language. 1844Upton Physioglyphics Pref. p. ii, A person unpractised in authorship. 1900Longm. Mag. Mar. 466 Supposing that I speak to anyone who is unpractised in the art.
2. Not practised; unemployed, untried.
1540Commemoration of Inestimable Graces of God B ij, The old prouerbe..is not lefte vnpractised by the sayde Antichrist. c1584An Abstract, Certaine Acts Parl. (title-p.), Certaine Canons, Constitutions, and Synodals prouinciall..for the most part heretofore vnknowen and vnpractized. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. ii. i, I..must try Some yet unpractis'd way to grieve and die. 1686Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 184 An unsafe and hetherto unpractised way in procedure. 1753Hanway Trav. xiv. x. (1762) II. 382 No barbarities were left unpractised. 1848Akerman Introd. Study Anc. & Mod. Coins v. 90 This description of artifice seems to have been..unpractised among the Romans.
†b. Untraversed, unfamiliar. Obs.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 4 Ships..Then plow'd th' vnpractiz'd bosom of the Flood. 1778R. Lowth Transl. Isaiah Notes 187 A journey..through desert and unpracticed countries.
Hence unˈpractisedness.
1628Earle Microcosm. (Arb.) 61 He ascribes all honestie to an vnpractis'dnesse in the World. 1672Flamsteed in Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men (1841) II. 130 My unpractisedness in such observations at the first essays. |