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unaˈppointed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not appointed, in various senses.
1560Pilkington Expos. Aggeus I iij, Nay how shall they come together, except place and time be appoynted? How shal they know when and whither to resort, vnappoynted? a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. v. (1912) 377 Else the very griefe & feare would prove her unappointed executioners. 1782V. Knox Ess. vi. (1819) I. 34 The operations of this engine of oppression, in the hands of an interested plebeian, unappointed, unauthorised. 1800Law Rep. 29 Ch. Div. 521 So much thereof as should remain unappointed or undisposed of.
2. Not fitted out with requisites; unequipped.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 64 Finding them selues vnappointed for the fielde, [they] keepe a farre off. 1759[see unaneled ppl. a.]. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. xi, Troops badly commanded, shall we say? Or troops intrinsically bad? Unappointed, undisciplined, mutinous. |