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† unˈproperly, adv. Obs.
[un-1 11, 5 b.]
Improperly. (Freq. c 1560–c 1650.) a. In respect of the use of words.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 8129 Ffor if endlesnes any end moght hald, Þan war it endlesnes unproperly cald. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxxii. (Bodl. MS.), It is vnpropirliche seide þat oþer bestes haue backes. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula, etc. 55 Þai ar called emeroydez, bot neþerlez vnproperly. a1470H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) i. xiii. 45/2 They take that Dulia full largely, and full unproprely. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 93 Long talke, and small matter, are spoken vnproperly, for we cannot measure either talke or matter by length or breadth. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 100 This worde sacrifice, is either taken properly, or vnproperly, and figuratiuely. 1636M. Walbancke in Ann. Dubrensia (1877) 3 You to whom I may not unpropperly give the denomination of an Hero. 1678Moxon Mech. Exerc. v. 95 They..say..‘Lay a kerf in that piece of Stuff’; and sometimes, (but most unproperly,) ‘Cut, or Slit that piece of Stuff’.
b. In other contexts.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. ii. 153 Those thinges yt were done in his nature of man, are vnproperly, & yet not without reason, geuen to hys Godhed. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades 463 Iustification is somtimes somewhat vn⁓properly attributed to workes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage i. viii. 41 A part of the hill Taurus (unproperly ascribed to Caucasus). 1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing ii. ⁋2 They commonly, but unproperly, imploy Joyners to make them. |