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unˈtam(e)able, a.
(un-1 7 b.)
(a)1576Fleming tr. Caius' Dogs D 2, Be the bull neuer so monsterous,..neuer so vntameable. 1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 58 The Parthians were a people so vntameable to be subdued, that [etc.]. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 112 The Indian little Pig-Cony..is..more tractable in hand; howbeit vntamable. 1692Dryden Don Sebastian i. i, Still untameable! In what a ruine has thy head-strong Pride..plung'd thy People. 1764Harmer Observ. viii. §11. 326 The Arabs have been always looked upon as an untameable people. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. III. 343 This animal..[is] more savage and untameable than any other quadrupede. 1818Milman Samor vii. 172, I know thee now, majestic Rebel! thee The untraceable, untameable! 1833J. Rennie Alph. Angling 25 The pike is held to be a more wild, untameable fish than the carp. 1870N. F. Hele Aldeburgh vii. 77 They [sc. short-horned owls] are very untameable. 1890Spectator 11 Jan., Cruel and untameable though they [sc. the Masai] seem.
fig.1836F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 274 A genuine poet..enjoys the mental chase in proportion to the wild and untameable nature of the game.
(b)1567R. Mulcaster Fortescue's De Laud. Leg. 92 The lustes of the fleash are wanton, & almoste vntamable. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. ix. 21 He subdeweth their untamable wilfulnesse by force. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1687 I. 33 His own unsatiable desires,..and untameable passions, will disquiet him. 1742Young Nt. Th. v. 262 A Pomp untameable of Weed prevails. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 380 This vigour and untamable violence of the sensitive faculties. 1818Shelley Let. Pr. Wks. 1888 II. 224 The untameable profusion and loveliness of nature. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun xviii, It was a delight to behold this untamable water.
Hence unˈtam(e)ably adv.
1807Trans. Linn. Soc. (1808) IX. 177 In a state of confinement, they appear to be untameably savage. |