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unreˈfined, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not refined in manners, feelings, or speech.
1595W. Clerke Polimanteia, etc. R iij, With Chausers praise, with Lydgate,..and such like, whose vnrefined tongues..wrote simplie and purelie as the times weare. 1704Swift T. Tub. ix, The Vulgar dictates of unrefined Reason. 1756Burke Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 61 In these early and unrefined ages. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. ii. vi. 309 In this unrefined state, the Scoto-Irish long continued. 1861G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harb. 60 A confirmed bachelor,..somewhat rough and unpolished and unrefined.
2. Not freed from gross or inferior matter.
c1610Rates of Marchandizes F 1 b, Camphire refined the pound. Camphire vnrefined. 1611Cotgr., Borras Pierreux, vnrefined Borax, as it comes out of the rocke, or mine. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. i. v. 65 Like gold yet unrefined. 1703W. Dampier Voy. III. 55 Which makes it whiter and finer than our Muscovada, as we call our unrefin'd Sugar. 1791T. Newte Tour Eng. & Scot. 108 Rocksalt in the raw and unrefined state. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 190 Brazil sends us..raw cotton and unrefined sugar. 1900Jrnl. Soc. Dyers xvi. 10 Unrefined natural indigo.
Hence unreˈfinedness.
1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass 18 The vnrefinednesse of the spirits doe seeme to affect the soule. |