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unˈtravelled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. That has not travelled.
1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. Ep. Ded., They are among men vntrauelled as Hesperus among the smaller starres. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster i. i, If they should, I say, they were never abroad:..it writes them directly untravel'd. 1667Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 73 Untravell'd Gentle⁓men,..and Generals, that had scarce ever before seen a Battel. 1712Addison Spect. No. 407 ⁋1 That an untravelled Englishman cannot relish all the Beauties of Italian Pictures. 1812Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) III. 19 Sophia and Walter hold their heads very high among their untravelled companions. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 524 We rarely find an untravelled man who is not full of prejudice.
transf. and fig.1606Sir G. Goosecappe i. ii. B i, Fo. Why this is the vntrauaild rudnes of our grose Englesh ladies now. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 8 Where'er I roam,..My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee. 1805Ann. Rev. III. 199 The author is apparently untravelled in continental literature. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. i, To their untravelled thought a state of wandering was a conception as dim as the winter life of the swallows.
2. Not travelled over or through.
1661Feltham Resolves ii. xlix. 281 He..that is illiterate, and unactively lives hamletted in some untravail'd village. a1720J. Hughes Ode to Creator 35 Beyond the untravell'd limits of the sky. 1762Falconer Shipwr. 335 Pilots, tutor'd to divine Th' untravel'd course by geometric line. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. vi. 455 To the deep shade of those untravelled Wilds. 1864R. S. Hawker Quest Sangraal 41 Neither landmarks, nor fences, bounded..the bold, free, and untravelled Cornish domain.
fig.1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. To Rdr. A 5, Wee..are oft-times faine to wander in America and untravelled parts of truth. 1672Lloyd F.S. on Bp. Wilkins 27 He shewed it in whatsoever Argument he undertook; sometimes beating out new untravel'd ways, sometimes repairing those that had been beaten already. |