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▪ I. † unˈtime, n. Obs.
[OE. untíma (un-1 12, 4 b), = ON. and Icel. útími, ótími (MSw., Norw. dial. otime).]
1. in (earlier on) untime, at an unsuitable, improper, or wrong time. Also in pl.
Cf. ON. í útíma, MSw. i otima, i otimom, in same sense.
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. C. xxi. 153 Swa se læce, ðonne he on untiman lacnað wunde, hio wyrmseð & rotað. c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xii. 76 ælc þæra manna þe yt oððe drincð on untiman on þam halᵹan lenctene. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 207 He habbe ofte agilt on golliche dedes, on untime oðer on unluuede stede. a1225Ancr. R. 344 Of vres misseide wiðuten ȝeme of heorte oðer in untime. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 2962 Ȝyf þou þys foly haunte..Yn vntyme,..For soþe þou synnest þer dedly. c1386Chaucer Pars. Prol. ⁋1051 A man shal nat ete in vntyme, ne sitte the lenger at his table to ete for he fasteth. c1440Jacob's Well 105 To pleyin at þe tablys,..& at swyche oþere vayn pleyis, in vntyme & out of mesure. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Hawking c vii b, A lombe that was borne in vntime. a1500in Ratis Raving, etc. 18 Oft fore thocht of his riches he walkis in wntymis.
b. untimes (gen. sing.), untimely, untimeous.
a1300Cursor M. 27799 O suernes cums..Vntimes spech or to be still. c1470Henry Wallace ix. 1630 This hour..thow mycht haiff beyn away; Wntymys thow art, for it is scantly day.
2. a. A bad time, inclement season. (OE. only.)
a1023Wulfstan Hom. 297 Ic asende ofer eower land ælcne untiman, þæt bið eᵹeslice great haᵹol..and unasecgendlice þunras. c1130O.E. Chron. an. 1124, Ðes ilces ᵹeares wæron fæla untime on Englelande, on corne & on ealle westme.
b. An unsuitable time for action.
14..Northern Passion (MS. I) 601 Thys is vn tyme of þe nyghte, In thys tharkenesse to preue ȝoure myghte.
▪ II. † unˈtime, a. Obs.
[OE. untíme (un- 4 b).]
Untimely; ill-timed.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives xii. 74 Se dysiᵹa dranc butan bletsunge..He his feorh forlet and ᵹebohte swa ðone untiman drenc. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 13 Continencia:..Ðat feorðe is, þat man þe spuse haueð, his golliche deden wið-teo, swo hit be untime. 1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 227 Whan he com to lond Tiþing com him vntime, Sir Lowys dede he fond. 141426 Polit. Poems 56 Slouþe vn-tyme eft mon swete When it is hot, and gloweþ as glede. |