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unˈschooled, ppl. a. and a.
[un-1 8, 9.]
1. Uneducated, untaught.
1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. iv. xiv. §2 They were..poore, simple, vnschooled altogether and vnlettered men. 1615Sylvester Job Triumphant Proem 54 Mine un-schooled and unskilfull Muse. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 184 In art unschool'd, each veteran rule he prized. 1865Grote Plato I. vi. 222 He especially warns Dionysius against talking about these matters to unschooled men. 1873Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 222 The vulgar unschooled mind.
b. spec. Not educated at school; not made to attend school. Also absol.
1841Emerson Ess., History ad fin., The Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy. 1847Eng. Rev. No. ii. 18 There were only 21,609 children unschooled. 1898Daily News 14 Oct. 4/7 It is the unschooled that make the gaolbirds.
2. Untrained, undisciplined.
1589Nashe Anat. Absurditie Ep., From such entercourse of excuse, let my vnschooled indignities conuert them selues to your courtesie. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 97 It shewes..a Minde impatient, An Vnderstanding simple, and vnschool'd. 1811L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. I. 69 Any power, that her..experience might give her over the errors of so unschooled a husband. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. x. II. 8 A panic-struck mob, unschooled by discipline or experience. 1871M. E. Braddon Lovels iii. 41 A generous and somewhat lofty nature, perhaps, but unschooled and unchastened as yet.
b. Not affected or made artificial by education; natural, spontaneous.
1815Moore Epil. to Lady Dacre's Ina 43 When lovely Woman, all unschool'd and wild, Blush'd without art. 1873M. Arnold Lit. & Dogma iii. 100 The artless, unschooled perception of a child. 1883R. Bridges Prometheus 648 The unschooled promptings of his best desire.
3. Not provided with a school.
1872M. Collins Princess Clarice II. ii. 28 A dingy village, undrained and unschooled. |