unrestfuladj.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Baruch iv. 15 A folc vnsaciable, or vnrestful [L. inprobam], and of an other tunge.

?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 206 (MED) Euere þei ben vnquyetid and vnrestful, seþin þei desiren sich a þing þat neuere may fulfille hem.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 104 Þei are..vnschamful to axe,..vnrestful tul þei tak, vnkynd wan þei han tane.

1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. xiv. f. lc^v That good peasyble folke.., shold not for such inquiete and vnrestful wreches with out some rufle lyue in peace longe.

1553 Primer in Liturgies Edw. VI (1844) 474 We are..besieged of cruel and unrestful enemies.

1565 Abp. M. Parker Let. 7 Apr. in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 237 The talk..is much increased, and unrestful they be, and I alone they say am in fault.

1672 tr. J. Grybius Lyon Disturbed 28 What provision there was in the Magasins..was found to be very slight, and the Key of the Powder-Tower not to be found, which made the citizens yet more unrestfull.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 236 (MED) Þai [sc. the brain-injured] haue feueres and ben vnrestful.

?a1475 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Harl. 6579) ii. xxvii. f. 96 It beriþ doun þe þouȝt & makiþ it unrestful.

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 242 The bedde of a persone beeyng in greate debte is an unrestefull thyng.

1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes sig. M iv^v Phaselles..greatlie disturbe the spirite of the braine, causinge manye vnrestfull dreames throughe their vapours.

1661 T. Flatman Don Juan Lamberto (ed. 2) ii. viii. sig. M4^v If you refuse me, denying these my unrestful thoughts, I can look for nothing but present death.

1733 Capt. Downes All Vows Kept i. i. 4 If his unrestful Soul Hover in the Air.

1824 T. Carlyle Let. 5 Oct. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1970) III. 171 Spreading my unrestful imaginations over these chalk cliffs and the far-sounding ocean.

1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Dec. 11/2 There is on every face a craving, unrestful expression.

1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness ii, in Youth 105 One's past came back to one..in the shape of an unrestful and noisy dream.

1968 Clovis (New Mexico) News-Jrnl. 11 Feb. 16 Harriet soon becomes aware of the unrestful currents in the household and the mysterious animosity among its members.

2007 N. Argenti Intestines of State 297 The strong emphasis on ‘the bush’ as a space of death inhabited by unrestful spirits in African folktales.

?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 385 Suche as gretly rowte or make any unrestful noyse in ther sleppe..schal be purueyd a nother place, wher they may slepe with oute unrestyng of other.

1494 W. Hilton Scala Perfeccionis (de Worde) i. l. sig. evi Therfore put awaye vnrestfull dynne.

1548 N. Bodrugan Epitome Title to Souereigntie Scotl. (1873) 254 What properties procedeth of warre, but outragious costes,..consumyng anger, vnrestfull quietness.

1566 T. Becon New Postil i. f. 265^v I know into what great troubles, miserable afflictions, blouddy persecutions, & other vnrestful griffes ye shall fall.

1827 Alma & Brione ii. 64 His peaceless and unrestful couch forlorn..He quits.

1844 Q. Rev. Oct. 324 That state, half sleep half stupor, when the troubled expiring body takes a dull, painful, unrestful rest, before its last long earthly repose.

1864 Sporting Gaz. 31 Dec. 1031/2 She fell at last into a fitful, unrestful sleep.

1893 Homeopathic Jrnl. Obstetr., Gynecol. & Pedol. 15 103 The spirit of the age is unrestful, and we all of us share to some extent in this craving after new things, and admiration for new methods, which dominate our time.

1910 Musical Times 51 737/2 The conditions of modern life were of a distracting, hurrying and unrestful character.

1966 Motor Boating July 114/2 We stayed only one unrestful night, powering out nervously next morning.

2003 T. Alan Who you Know (2005) 235 I longed to escape into sleep, but I was lucky to struggle through a few unrestful hours a night.

1895 Parl. Deb. 4th. Ser. 31 807 Some of the neighbouring Powers were unrestful.

1907 Manch. Guardian 18 Mar. 12 Signs were not now wanting that the natives were unrestful, their conduct being, in fact, worse than before the rebellion.

1962 Internat. Rev. Educ. 8 450 This large college-age group resides in the cities and constitutes for a non-technical society like Iran, an unrestful group and a potential source of change.

2011 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 17 Nov. hs3 Fans around him were becoming unrestful.

Remonstr. against Romish Corruptions (Titus) (1851) 141 He that coueitith bi his owne wil, and preecith forth himsilf vnrestfulli othir ful bisili, shall be put abak withouten doute.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 305 Vn Restfully, jnquiete, jnoportune.

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 247 Atte his sepulcre are spryngynge vnrestfully two welles.

1827 T. Carlyle tr. J. W. von Goethe Wilhelm Meister's Trav. in German Romance IV. 257 After a night passed in waking or unrestfully dreaming, I rose early.

1922 L. A. Harker Really Romantic Age i. i. 8 The electric bulb was shaded, but to Mellory, accustomed to cherished and fastidious invalids, the room seemed unrestfully light.

2001 J. R. Lennon On Night Plain vii. 150 In time he slept himself, briefly and unrestfully, and then morning had come.