| 释义 |
unˈtutored, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Uneducated, untaught; simple, unsophisticated; † rude, boorish:
a. Of persons.
1593Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, v. v. 32 Vntutor'd Lad, thou art too malapert. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. Babylon 262 Un-toyld, un-tutord,..We learn'd a language all men understood. 1618Fletcher Loyal Subj. iv. iii, We are two simple maids, untutor'd here Sir. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies 15 Those Secretaries of Nature..fell under the hatred of the untutor'd rabble. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 491 What God to your untutor'd youth affords This headlong torrent of amazing words? 1780Bentham Princ. Legisl. xviii. §17 note, It is not for this that the untutored many could have originally submitted themselves to the dominion of the few. 1809–14Wordsw. Excurs. v. 840 The untutored bird may..so construct..her nest..That the thorns wound her not. 1858Merivale Rom. Emp. lii. VI. 66 [These] women..were exceptions to the mass of the untutored matrons of Rome. 1878H. S. Palmer Sinai iv. 75 The superstitious and un⁓tutored inhabitants of the Desert.
b. Of the mind, intellect, etc.
1597Pilgr. to Parnassus i. 9 Urge mee to advise youre younge untutord thoughts. 1619A. Newman Pleas. Vis. (1840) 7 Vaine will vntam'd, vntutored, Left Reasons rule. 1693Prior To Dr. Sherlock 29 Thy even Thoughts with so much Plainness flow; Their Sense untutor'd Infancy may know. 1732Pope Ess. Man i. 99 The poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. 1784Cowper Task ii. 570 A relaxation of religion's hold Upon the roving and untutor'd heart Soon follows. 1837Disraeli Venetia iii. vii, Her unsophisticated and untutored spirit. 1867Pearson Hist. Eng. I. 15 Their wants were still undeveloped, their taste untutored.
c. Of instruments (esp. pen or pencil).
1611Rich Honest. Age (Percy Soc.) 7, I come not to implore a Lawrell Crowne, Wherewith to decke my rude untutred quill. 1623J. Taylor (Water P.) Discov. by Sea C 2 b, What my vntutor'd Pen cannot sufficiently commend, I am forced with silence to ouerpasse. 1706E. Ward Wooden World Diss. (1708) A 6 b, This rough Draught of my untutor'd Pencil. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. viii. 380 Of so little consequence are the most destructive arms in untutored and unpractised hands. 1865F. Parkman Champlain iv. (1875) 240 A scene oddly portrayed by the untutored pencil of Champlain.
d. Of places or conditions.
1751W. Whitehead Hymn to Nymph 312 Ev'n then, the scene We now behold to such perfection wrought, Charm'd with untutor'd wildness. 1760W. Smith Disc. Public Occas. (1762) 119 The Propagation of Christ's religion through the untutored parts of the earth. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 204 The children of untutored nature. 1809Wordsw. Poems Nat. Indep. & Liberty ii. xiii, Is it among rude, un⁓tutored Dales..only, that the heart is true? 1887Cornh. Mag. Jan. 39 A camping-out expedition in the untutored woodlands.
2. Not produced or formed as the result of education or training; not improved by instruction.
1593Shakes. Lucr. Ded., The worth of my vntutord Lines. 1644Milton Educ. 2 Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing..with their untutor'd Anglicisms. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 422 The gracious Power Who first awakened my untutored song. 1768Boswell Corsica iii. (ed. 2) 196 Those heroes whose untutored patriotism had shone with such lustre. 1788Gibbon Decl. & F. xliv. IV. 334 The laws of marriage,..the authority of parents,..are ascribed to the untutored wisdom of Romulus. 1810Crabbe Borough i. 122 We prune our hedges, prime our slender trees, And nothing looks untutor'd and at ease. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 61 The rough untutored vocal expression of worship offered by a whole congregation. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets viii. 251 The peculiar glories of Aristophanes style are its untutored beauties.
3. Not subject to a tutor or tutors.
1641Milton Reform. ii. 72 Where under a free, and un⁓tutor'd Monarch, the..most prudent men..have in their power the supreame..determination of highest Affaires. |