unweighedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈweɪd/, U.S. /ˌənˈweɪd/ 1. Not weighed.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [adjective] > weighed > not
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1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 348 lix. bales of Gene wode unweyed.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings vii. 47 Salomon let all the apparell be vnweyed [1539 vnwayed, 1611 vnweighed] because the metall was so moch.
1555 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 153 xlv sowes of leade unwaied.
1697 K. Chetwood Life Virgil in J. Dryden tr. Virgil Wks. sig. **2v Massy Plate, unweigh'd, to a great value.
2. Not deliberately considered; not pondered before utterance or expression; hasty, inconsiderate.
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adjective] > careless or thoughtless > of actions
undeliveredc1425
inconsideratec1460
undeliberatea1525
unweigheda1586
indigested1587
inconsidereda1631
inconsult1652
indeliberate1655
indeliberated1656
inconsiderative1684
undeliberated1703
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xxii. sig. Cc8 Disgraced with wandring eyes, and vnwaied speeches.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) ii. i. 21 What an vnwaied Behauiour hath this Flemish drunkard pickt..out of my conuersation!
1694 J. Collier Misc. iv. 28 If an Emperour throws out an unweigh'd Sentence, must we be governed by it?
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 84 Daughter! what words have pass'd thy lips unweigh'd?
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) To leave arguments or testimony unweighed.
1850 J. F. Cooper Ways of Hour II. 241 Much unmerited misery is..entailed by such unweighed assertions and opinions.
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