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unˈstably, adv.
[un-1 11. Cf. prec.]
In an unstable manner; unsteadily.
a1380Eufrosyne 390 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 178 I stunte, I stonde, vnstabli I stalke. 14..Wyclif's De Ecclesia (1851) p. xiii, But her þenken trewe men þat þe fend failiþ her, & goiþ vnstably [v.r. unstable] bi two weies. c1440Promp. Parv. 367/2 Onstabylly, instabiliter. 1502W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione iii. xix. 212 He standeth casually and vnstably that castith nat all his busynes in the. 1611Cotgr., Instablement, vnstably, vnsteadily. 1654Ellistone & Sparrow tr. Boehme's Myst. Magnum lxxvi. 579 As Adam suddenly and unstablely therein, departed from his Glory. 1830Pusey Hist. Enq. ii. 109 Others, who are unstably ‘halting between the two opinions’. 1879Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. §351 A particle placed on the inner circle..would move perpetually in that circle, but unstably. |