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unadˈvisedly, adv.
Forms: as prec. + -lie, -ly(e (also 4 unauyssedly, 6 Sc. onavisitly).
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. Without consideration or reflection; imprudently, injudiciously; thoughtlessly, rashly, inadvisedly.
αc1340Hampole Prose Tr. 11 Þat þay say to þam na wordes of myssawe..ne of displesance vnauyssedly. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. (1811) 666 Robert Byfelde, one of the shyreffs, vnauysidly knelyd downe nygh vnto the sayd mayer, wherof the mayer after reasonyd hym and layd it to his charge. 1513Douglas æneid x. vii. 151 Quhill Alesus onavisitly Cled with hys scheyld Imaonus, hym by,..Hys breist stud nakyt.
β1474Caxton Chesse iii. iv. G 4 b, It cometh of nature often tymes to women to geue counceyl shortly and unaduysedly to thynges that ben in doubte or perilous. 1581Mulcaster Positions xxxvi. (1887) 138 By appointment, either vnaduisedly made, or aduisedly marred. 1620Venner Via Recta viii. 189 If it be immoderately, vntimely, and vnaduisedly vsed, it is no lesse hurtfull then Intemperance. 1657Trapp Comm. Job xlii. 4 He would speak no more so rashly, and unadvisedly as he had done, to God's dishonour. 1709Tatler No. 147 ⁋8, I shall decide nothing unadvisedly in Matters of this Nature. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 187 Charles the first..having unadvisedly passed an act to continue the parliament then in being. 1808Scott Let. to Gifford Oct. in Lockhart, If a weak brother will unadvisedly put forth his hand to support even the ark of the constitution, I would expose his arguments. 1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt v, There are ranks and degrees—and those who can serve in the higher must not unadvisedly change what seems to be a providential appointment.
†2. Without warning; unexpectedly. Obs.
c1535in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. App. xlv. 125 Anti⁓christ shal sodenly and unadvisedly come, and..destroy al mankind through his error. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 175 Petrus, who..suddenly and unadvisedly by the commandment of Maximinus was beheaded. 1699N. Marsh in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 296 The pretended Mathematician has quite mistaken his measures, and, soaring too high, hath unadvisedly dropt into the pit. |