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1340 Ayenbite (1866) 218 Þou ne sselt naȝt sseawy þe beuore me, ydel-honded.

a1533 J. Frith Mirroure (?1536) ii. sig. Avi Ydle belyed Monkes, Chanons & Prests.

1564 Briefe Exam. *****iiij To beleue euery fonde meanyng, as suche ydle brayned Durandes do bryng.

1615 T. Overbury et al. New & Choise Characters with Wife (6th impr.) sig. M4 Let him be found neuer so idle pated, hee is still a graue drunkard.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xviii. 285 Is the man idle-brain'd for want of rest?

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 177 Idle-witted and fantastical men.

1849 J. C. Hare Serm. Preacht Herstmonceux Church II. 187 None of you can be so idle-thoughted as to fancy you can escape.

1870 E. A. Freeman in W. R. W. Stephens Life & Lett. E. A. Freeman (1895) II. 10 Idle-looking, watering-place sort of folk.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/3 The empty-headed and idle-minded exist in both sexes.

1899 Leisure Hour Dec. 153 Hence the dull lives of many children of the poor, their occasional trend towards mischief from sheer idle-mindedness.

1917 R. Kipling Years Between (1919) 47 But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died.

1927 T. Wilder Bridge San Luis Rey 100 Even the busiest mother stands for a moment idle-handed.

1928 Oxf. Poetry 39 Because this place is full of moneyed young men And indolent phallophil idleminded girls.