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unˈstaid, a.
Also 6–7 unstaied, -stayed, etc.
[un-1 7.]
1. Of persons: Not staid or regulated in deportment or conduct.
c1550Cheke Matt. xxiii. 25 Thei be called in greek ἀκρατεῖς,..which we mai cal rightli vnstaid. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. ii. iii. 567 When they are so new fangled, so vnstaide, so prodigious in their attires. 1636Heywood Love's Mistr. v. L 4, Now Psiche, you must see your sisters judg'd, Vnstaid Petrea, and unkind Astioche.
transf.1591Shakes. Two Gent. ii. vii. 60 How will the world repute me For vndertaking so vnstaid a iourney?
†b. Of a hawk: Not properly trained. Obs.—1
1614Latham Falconry i. v. 21 With the first of these three orders, I haue reclaimed an outragious vnstaied hawke.
2. Of the mind, etc.: Not subjected to restraint or control; unrestrained, unregulated.
(a)1579E. K. Ded. to Spenser's Sheph. Cal. §5 His vnstayed yougth had long wandred in the common Labyrinth of Loue. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 2 Will the King come, that I may breath my last In wholsome counsell to his vnstaid youth? 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 158 All those vaine delights which vnstaied youth most desireth.
(b)1587Holinshed Chron. III. 488/1 To lash out whatsoeuer his vnstaied mind affoorded. 1605Rowlands Hell's Broke Loose (Hunterian Club) 23 The easier to beguile The simple sort, which haue vnstayed mindes. a1678H. Scougal Disc. Imp. Subj. (1735) 136 Our blood is hot, and our spirits unstayed and giddy. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T. 1 Tim. iii. 11 Women..in danger..of unstayed Levity. 1812Cary Dante, Purg. x. 112 O poor and wretched ones! That..lean your trust Upon unstaid perverseness. 1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher i. 38 Unripe and unstaid thoughts, the vanities of youth. 1840Lowell The Moon 5 My soul was like the sea,..Moaning in vague immensity,..Unrestful and unstaid.
(c)1592Lyly Gallathea iii. i, I feele my thoughts vnknit, mine eyes vnstaied. 1638R. Brathwait Spirit. Spicery, etc. 398 Those poore objects wherewith my unstayed eyes were fed.
(d)1590Spenser Muiopot. 161 To the gay gardins his vnstaid desire Him wholly caried, to refresh his sprights. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. xi. 348 Ethelbald..by the wise reproofe of godly Bishops brought From those vnstay'd delights by which his youth was caught.
3. Not settled or stable in opinion or resolve; not clearly determined or decided.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 5 That vnstayed and wandring opinion of the maiestie of God. 1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 121 If they had brought the old renowmed Reliques from Rome, some unstayed body would haue made question whether they had been Saints bones indeed. 1613Bp. Hall Serm. v. 93 A private man unsettled in opinion, is..troublesome and useless: but a public person unstayed is dangerous. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 515 King Henry,..vnstayed in religious resolutions, did cut them off vpon false suggestions. a1750A. Hill Muse to Writer viii, While roving thus, uncenter'd and unstaid, I lik'd by turns, and did by turns refuse.
4. Liable to change or alter; uncertain.
1586Day Eng. Secretary i. (1595) 116 Is there anie thing on earth so assured, that by vnstaied incertaintie is not continuallie guided? 1628Feltham Resolves ii. xlvi. 135 Change is the great Lord of the World; Time is his Agent, that brings in all things to suffer his vnstaid Dominion. 1642H. More Song of Soul iii. iii. 15 They frisque about in circulings unstay'd.
Hence unˈstaidly adv.
1556N. Grimalde Cicero's Offices iii. 123 Nothing..vniustly, nothing wantonly, nothing vnstayedly is meete to be done. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxxvii. 9 If wee were not shifted hither and thither unstayedly. 1611Cotgr., Incontinemment,..disorderedly, vnstayedly, immoderately. |