unreasonn.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈriːzn/, U.S.

/ˌənˈrizn/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and reason n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reason n.¹

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reason n.¹

†1. Injustice, impropriety, or injury without due cause. Obsolete (Scottish in later use).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [noun]

unrighteOE

unrightnessOE

unrightfulnessc1275

wrongousnessc1325

the wrongc1330

unequityc1380

injustice1390

unreasonc1390

wrongfulnessa1400

unskilfulnessc1410

unjustnessc1443

unevennessa1470

unjusticea1475

disreason1480

unreasonablenessc1515

inequity1556

iniquity1587

non-reason1597

unequalness1628

unfairness1713

wrongness1833

society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [noun]

unrightnessOE

unrightOE

wronga1100

un-i-rightc1275

injustice1390

unreasonc1390

wrongfulnessa1400

unskilfulnessc1410

unjustnessc1443

unjusticea1475

disreason1480

unreasonablenessc1515

non-reason1597

wrongness1833

unconscionability1908

c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 303 Wiþ muchel wrong and vn Resoun Dost þow me þis tresoun.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3747 He has me don oft vn-resun And no me reft mi benisun.

a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. ix. f. 60^v (MED) It semyth me vnreason..þat he þat noght owith schal paye for the dettour him self.

1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 11 And that ȝe think vnressoun or wrang, Wee al and sundrie sings the samin sang.

1609 J. Skene tr. Statutes Robert I in Regiam Majestatem 23 Sa lang as he or his preloquutour defends tort and non reason, that is, wrang and vnlach (that is to haue done na iniurie, nor vnreason agains the Law).

a. The state or condition of being devoid of reason; inability to think or act rationally or reasonably.rare before the 19th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun]

unskillc1380

unreasona1400

unreasonableness1598

reasonlessness1622

irrationability1645

alogy1646

irrationality1822

non-rationality1894

non-reason1898

stupid1948

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6924 Þis Iuus, fild wit vn-resun, In-to þe land o promission Thoru moyses ne come þai noght.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 132 Who-so..unknitteth wil to be in other purpose than to the first accorde, knitteth him with contrarye of reson; and that is unreson.

1649 C. Raue Disc. Orientall Tongues (new ed.) 2 It doth rather imbrace (according to that light of Nature which God hath bestowed upon it) REASON than UNREASON.

1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 313 The spectre nun..boisterous outlaws..grimmest man-haters, ghosts, and the like suspicious characters..[are] mostly relinquished as unproductive. Other forms of Unreason have taken its place.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. vii. 115 Many a woman is brought up in unreason and self-will from these causes that he has given.

1883 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 2 All my energy was directed..to free myself from the bondage of unreason.

1938 G. West Charles Darwin viii. 133 Clearly he was again in a state of extreme nervous tension, and in his restless unreason his plans grew ever more grandiose.

1989 C. Handy Age of Unreason 5 We are now entering an Age of Unreason..a time..for thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable.

2010 Independent 20 Feb. 37/3 Someone attacks you with unreason, you strike back with more unreason still.

b. The state or condition of being contrary to reason; illogicality. Also: that which is contrary to reason.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > irrational thing, action, etc.

irrationalitya1680

unreason1824

non-rational1893

arational1972

1824 Liverpool Mercury 2 July 3/2 Suppose that we admit that it is correct to say ‘unreason in religion’; why then, the contrary is correct also, namely, ‘reason in religion’.

1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. vii. 114 Women may talk the greatest unreason out of doors, and nobody kindly informs them that it is unreason.

1880 Harper's Mag. July 257/1 He who would be convinced of the unreason of our educational organization, can do no better than read the able and interesting address delivered by Andrew D. White.

1950 K. A. Porter Let. 5 July (1990) vii. 385 Those little exploring notes saying merely, in the best tradition of Irish unreason, ‘if you don't receive this please let me know’.

1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus v. xiv. 211 It is the standard example always used by professors in introductory courses to illustrate illogic and unreason.

Phrases

Originally Scottish. Abbot (of) Unreason: a mock character chosen to preside over certain popular games and festivities, esp. at Christmas. Cf. Abbot of Unrest n. at unrest n. Phrases and Lord of Misrule n. at misrule n. 4. Now chiefly historical.

ΚΠ

1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 270 To Gilberte Brade,..for spilling of his hous in Striuiling be the Abbot of Vnresoun, x li.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 40 The same Frear maid ane uther sermoun of the Abbote Unreassone, unto whome..he compared the prelattis of that age.

1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. ii. 77 The populace amused themselves with other games, which..seem not to have been unconnected with religion. Of these, the chief were the game of Robin Hood, and that of the Abbot of Unreason.

1851 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 126 We'll fetch for this festive season From Downing Street Lords of Misrule, From St. George's our Abbot Unreason.

1932 Observer 25 Dec. 8/2 Add a mask and we are one with all the Lords of Misrule, Abbots of Unreason, and Princes of Purpoole who ever turned the Winter Feast into a scramble of order and office over-turned.

2005 R. Black Gaelic Otherworld 583 More recent approaches..portray the mock abbots of the Scottish burghs—the Abbot of Unreason in Inverness..or the Abbot of Unrest in Peebles—as part of a universal custom of suspending or reversing normality during the midwinter festival.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† unreasonv.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix², reason v.

Etymology: < un- prefix² + reason v.

Obsolete.

1. transitive. To deprive of reason.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)]

turn1372

mada1425

overthrow?a1425

to go (also fall, run) mada1450

deferc1480

craze1503

to face (a person) out ofc1530

dement1545

distemper1581

shake1594

distract1600

to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600

unwita1616

insaniate?1623

embedlama1628

dementate1628

crack1631

unreason1643

bemad1655

ecstasya1657

overset1695

madden1720

maddle1775

insanify1809

derange1825

bemoon1866

send (someone) up the wall1951

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (reflexive)]

braidc1275

estrange1547

unreason1643

1643 J. Burroughs Glorious Name of God 46 Surely we must unreason our selves before we can think so.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 343 We shall have such Solutions as must make us first unreason and unman our selves, before we can subscribe to them.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. i. i. 2 The unreasonable usage..so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty.

1829 T. Hook Bank to Barnes 40 Were I to tease on, It would nearly unreason your reason.

2. transitive. To disprove or refute.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)]

answerOE

bitavelena1225

allayc1275

confoundc1384

concludea1400

conclusea1400

forblenda1400

gainsaya1400

rejag1402

to bear downc1405

redarguea1425

repugn?a1425

reverse?c1430

improvec1443

reprovea1513

dissolve1529

revince1529

convince1530

confute1533

refel1534

refute1545

void1570

evict1583

infringe1590

reprehend1597

revert1598

evince1608

repel1613

to take off1618

unbubblea1640

invalid1643

invalidate1649

remove1652

retund1653

effronta1657

dispute1659

unreason1661

have1680

demolish1691

to blow sky-high1819

1661 R. L'Estrange State-divinity 25 Their Reasons I have un-Reason'd already.

1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 14 Its being so does not unreason it, or render it no Reason in it self.

a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 257 However a man may for a while..seem to himself to unreason the equity of God's proceedings; yet [etc.].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018).

单词	unreason
释义	unreasonn. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈriːzn/, U.S. /ˌənˈrizn/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and reason n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, reason n.¹ Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + reason n.¹ †1. Injustice, impropriety, or injury without due cause. Obsolete (Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > unjustness > [noun] unrighteOE unrightnessOE unrightfulnessc1275 wrongousnessc1325 the wrongc1330 unequityc1380 injustice1390 unreasonc1390 wrongfulnessa1400 unskilfulnessc1410 unjustnessc1443 unevennessa1470 unjusticea1475 disreason1480 unreasonablenessc1515 inequity1556 iniquity1587 non-reason1597 unequalness1628 unfairness1713 wrongness1833 society > morality > rightness or justice > wrong or injustice > [noun] unrightnessOE unrightOE wronga1100 un-i-rightc1275 injustice1390 unreasonc1390 wrongfulnessa1400 unskilfulnessc1410 unjustnessc1443 unjusticea1475 disreason1480 unreasonablenessc1515 non-reason1597 wrongness1833 unconscionability1908 c1390 MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 303 Wiþ muchel wrong and vn Resoun Dost þow me þis tresoun. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3747 He has me don oft vn-resun And no me reft mi benisun. a1500 ( Pilgrimage of Soul (Egerton) (1953) iv. ix. f. 60^v (MED) It semyth me vnreason..þat he þat noght owith schal paye for the dettour him self. 1603 Thre Prestis of Peblis (Charteris) (1920) 11 And that ȝe think vnressoun or wrang, Wee al and sundrie sings the samin sang. 1609 J. Skene tr. Statutes Robert I in Regiam Majestatem 23 Sa lang as he or his preloquutour defends tort and non reason, that is, wrang and vnlach (that is to haue done na iniurie, nor vnreason agains the Law). 2. a. The state or condition of being devoid of reason; inability to think or act rationally or reasonably.rare before the 19th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] unskillc1380 unreasona1400 unreasonableness1598 reasonlessness1622 irrationability1645 alogy1646 irrationality1822 non-rationality1894 non-reason1898 stupid1948 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6924 Þis Iuus, fild wit vn-resun, In-to þe land o promission Thoru moyses ne come þai noght. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 132 Who-so..unknitteth wil to be in other purpose than to the first accorde, knitteth him with contrarye of reson; and that is unreson. 1649 C. Raue Disc. Orientall Tongues (new ed.) 2 It doth rather imbrace (according to that light of Nature which God hath bestowed upon it) REASON than UNREASON. 1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 313 The spectre nun..boisterous outlaws..grimmest man-haters, ghosts, and the like suspicious characters..[are] mostly relinquished as unproductive. Other forms of Unreason have taken its place. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. vii. 115 Many a woman is brought up in unreason and self-will from these causes that he has given. 1883 M. Pattison Mem. (1885) 2 All my energy was directed..to free myself from the bondage of unreason. 1938 G. West Charles Darwin viii. 133 Clearly he was again in a state of extreme nervous tension, and in his restless unreason his plans grew ever more grandiose. 1989 C. Handy Age of Unreason 5 We are now entering an Age of Unreason..a time..for thinking the unlikely and doing the unreasonable. 2010 Independent 20 Feb. 37/3 Someone attacks you with unreason, you strike back with more unreason still. b. The state or condition of being contrary to reason; illogicality. Also: that which is contrary to reason. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [noun] > irrational thing, action, etc. irrationalitya1680 unreason1824 non-rational1893 arational1972 1824 Liverpool Mercury 2 July 3/2 Suppose that we admit that it is correct to say ‘unreason in religion’; why then, the contrary is correct also, namely, ‘reason in religion’. 1847 A. Helps Friends in Council I. i. vii. 114 Women may talk the greatest unreason out of doors, and nobody kindly informs them that it is unreason. 1880 Harper's Mag. July 257/1 He who would be convinced of the unreason of our educational organization, can do no better than read the able and interesting address delivered by Andrew D. White. 1950 K. A. Porter Let. 5 July (1990) vii. 385 Those little exploring notes saying merely, in the best tradition of Irish unreason, ‘if you don't receive this please let me know’. 1991 S. J. Gould Bully for Brontosaurus v. xiv. 211 It is the standard example always used by professors in introductory courses to illustrate illogic and unreason. Phrases Originally Scottish. Abbot (of) Unreason: a mock character chosen to preside over certain popular games and festivities, esp. at Christmas. Cf. Abbot of Unrest n. at unrest n. Phrases and Lord of Misrule n. at misrule n. 4. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 270 To Gilberte Brade,..for spilling of his hous in Striuiling be the Abbot of Vnresoun, x li. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 40 The same Frear maid ane uther sermoun of the Abbote Unreassone, unto whome..he compared the prelattis of that age. 1779 H. Arnot Hist. Edinb. i. ii. 77 The populace amused themselves with other games, which..seem not to have been unconnected with religion. Of these, the chief were the game of Robin Hood, and that of the Abbot of Unreason. 1851 Fraser's Mag. Jan. 126 We'll fetch for this festive season From Downing Street Lords of Misrule, From St. George's our Abbot Unreason. 1932 Observer 25 Dec. 8/2 Add a mask and we are one with all the Lords of Misrule, Abbots of Unreason, and Princes of Purpoole who ever turned the Winter Feast into a scramble of order and office over-turned. 2005 R. Black Gaelic Otherworld 583 More recent approaches..portray the mock abbots of the Scottish burghs—the Abbot of Unreason in Inverness..or the Abbot of Unrest in Peebles—as part of a universal custom of suspending or reversing normality during the midwinter festival. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † unreasonv. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix², reason v. Etymology: < un- prefix² + reason v. Obsolete. 1. transitive. To deprive of reason. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (transitive)] turn1372 mada1425 overthrow?a1425 to go (also fall, run) mada1450 deferc1480 craze1503 to face (a person) out ofc1530 dement1545 distemper1581 shake1594 distract1600 to go (also run, set) a-madding (or on madding)1600 unwita1616 insaniate?1623 embedlama1628 dementate1628 crack1631 unreason1643 bemad1655 ecstasya1657 overset1695 madden1720 maddle1775 insanify1809 derange1825 bemoon1866 send (someone) up the wall1951 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > drive mad [verb (reflexive)] braidc1275 estrange1547 unreason1643 1643 J. Burroughs Glorious Name of God 46 Surely we must unreason our selves before we can think so. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) 343 We shall have such Solutions as must make us first unreason and unman our selves, before we can subscribe to them. 1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. i. i. 2 The unreasonable usage..so unreasons my reason, that I have reason to complain of your beauty. 1829 T. Hook Bank to Barnes 40 Were I to tease on, It would nearly unreason your reason. 2. transitive. To disprove or refute. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > refutation, disproof > refute, disprove [verb (transitive)] answerOE bitavelena1225 allayc1275 confoundc1384 concludea1400 conclusea1400 forblenda1400 gainsaya1400 rejag1402 to bear downc1405 redarguea1425 repugn?a1425 reverse?c1430 improvec1443 reprovea1513 dissolve1529 revince1529 convince1530 confute1533 refel1534 refute1545 void1570 evict1583 infringe1590 reprehend1597 revert1598 evince1608 repel1613 to take off1618 unbubblea1640 invalid1643 invalidate1649 remove1652 retund1653 effronta1657 dispute1659 unreason1661 have1680 demolish1691 to blow sky-high1819 1661 R. L'Estrange State-divinity 25 Their Reasons I have un-Reason'd already. 1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 14 Its being so does not unreason it, or render it no Reason in it self. a1716 R. South Serm. Several Occasions (1744) XI. 257 However a man may for a while..seem to himself to unreason the equity of God's proceedings; yet [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.c1390v.1643
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