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unˈtamed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. ON. útamdr, Sw. otamd, Norw. utamd: also OHG. ungizamot, MHG. ungezamt, and untemed ppl. a.]
Not tamed (in various senses); wild; unsubdued.
(a)a1340Hampole Psalter xxiv. 11 He leris..sothfastnes thurgh þe whilke he is vntamed. 1382Wyclif Jer. xxxi. 18 Y am lerned as a ȝungling vntamed. 1495Glanvil Barth. De P.R. xviii. lxviii. 831 Suche asses be grete..and vntamyd. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xxx. 8 An vntamed horse wylbe harde. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. i. 2 Bacchus, that with furious might All th' East, before vntam'd, did ouerronne. 1623Bingham Xenophon p. ii, Of vntamed beasts, the most were wilde Asses. 1659Chamberlayne Pharon. iv. iii. 248 Base Amarus,..more beastly rude Than untamed Indians. 1718Prior Solomon i. 199 Untam'd and fierce the Tiger still remains. 1762Falconer Shipwr. ii. 518 Like some strong watch-tower nodding o'er the deep,..Untamed he stood. 1817Moore Lalla R., Veiled Prophet iii. 226 He..there, untam'd, the approaching conq'ror waits. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 254 A door for the inroads of untamed swine.
(b)1585Abp. Sandys Serm. xii. 205 Which thing rightly..weied, would bridle these vntamed affections of ours. 16001st Pt. Sir J. Oldcastle v. viii. 8 There dwell vntamed thoughts that hardly stoupe To such abasement. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored To Rdr. 11 His wilde untamed accustomary life. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Art of Poetry 177 With untam'd Fury let Medea glow. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxvii. (1787) III. 38 Their native fierceness was yet untamed. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xlv, Monsters, whose like they almost seemed to be in their wildness and their untamed air. 1859F. Mahony Rel. Father Prout 385 The human breast..Throbs thus unawed, Untamed and unquiescent.
(c)1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xlix. 539 The perries which are pressed out of wilde peares, and all such as are vnhusbanded, vntamed. 1623J. Taylor (Water P.) Discov. by Sea A 8 b, The windes and seas continued still their course,..vntam'd [seemed] their force. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Odes iv. xiv. 23 The Winds arise And work the Seas untam'd. c1790Coleridge Death Chatterton 159 Where Susquehannah pours his untamed stream. 1818Milman Samor viii. 130 The strong freedom of thy untam'd locks. 1841Carlyle Heroes i. (1904) 33 The untamed Forests and dark brute Powers of Nature. 1865F. Parkman Pioneers of France in New World (1876) p. x, An untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure.
Hence unˈtamedly adv., unˈtamedness.
1592Lyly Gallathea ii. v, Curse..the vntamednes of thy affections. 1612Ainsworth Annot. Ps. xl. 2 The untamednesse of the tongue. 1653W. Blithe Eng. Improver Impr. xxviii. 196 If the horse be kindly used, and taken of his untamedness by degrees,..he is made a horse for ever. 1706Stevens Span. Dict. i, Seneramente,..wildly, untam'dly, outrageously. 1727Bailey (vol. II), Wildness, Untamedness, Furiousness. |