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unˈtrained, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not trained by instruction or experience.
1548Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 180 b, Yet these shadowes of thynges visible wer geuen for a tyme to the grosse and vntrained people. 1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, i. ii. 73, I am by birth a Shepheards Daughter. My wit vntrayn'd in any kind of Art. 1633G. Herbert Temple, Content ii, Gad not abroad at ev'ry quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. 55, I cannot say that I am utterly untrain'd in those rules. 1805Wordsw. Prelude x. 197 Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived in the shade. 1823Scott Quentin D. xv, The low size, and wild, shaggy, untrained state of the animal. 1834Newman Par. Serm. (1837) I. xxii. 325 Nothing is done effectually through untrained human nature. 1864[see prec.].
2. spec. Not trained in military exercises.
1591Smith Instr. Military (1595) Ep. Ded. 8 That the people of kingdomes..should bee disarmed, vntrayned, and vnexercised, for feare of reuoltes. 1608tr. J. de Gheyn's Exercise of Arms 1 b, To instruct the vntrained souldiers. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 222 For life To noble and ignoble is more sweet Untraind in Armes. 1726Pope Odyssey xix. 212 Untrained to martial toil I lived inglorious in my native isle. 1770Glover Leonidas (ed. 5) vii. 510 The unabating fortitude of Greece Maintains her line, th' untrain'd Barbarians charge In savage fury.
3. Not trained in figure.
1871Figure Training 17 The untrained form of the dairy⁓maid.
Hence, in recent use, untrainedness. |