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unaˈttached, ppl. a.
Also 5–6 Sc. -attechit.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not arrested or seized. Obs.
1498Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 34/2 All his men..to be une-sumond, une-attechit, une-arrestit, in his or thairis persoun or gudis. 1531Ibid. II. 134/2 The saidis personis..to be unattechit, unarrestit,..and untrublit. 1639R. Junius Sin Stigm. 368 He that is pursued, will cry, Stop Theife, that by this meanes he may escape unattached.
2. Not attached or united (to something).
In the first set of quots. used with reference to physical attachment or connexion.
(a)1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 96 Mr. Mantell..ascertained it to have been an unattached animal, and without a column. 1861H. Macmillan Footn. fr. Page Nat. 46 It [the bog-moss] has no roots whatever, but floats unattached in an upright position in the water. 1878Abney Photogr. 100 Bromide of silver with unattached atoms of metallic silver, is formed.
(b)a1821V. Knox Spir. Despotism §34 True patriotism and true philosophy, unattached to names of particular men, or even to parties. 1844Disraeli Coningsby viii. vi, Her eye soon glanced over the page, unattached by its contents. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iii, ‘Pray do not trouble yourself,’ returned Deering hastily, ‘I can exist for half an hour in an unattached condition’.
3. Of persons: Not attached to, or definitely associated with, a particular body, institution, sphere of work, etc.:
a. Of military officers: Not attached to a particular regiment or company.
1796List Officers Army 13 Thomas Nesbitt,..Capt. of Foot, unattached. 1806Ibid. 17 Late Unattached Officers. 1826Gentl. Mag. I. 638 Promotions..J. Haverfield, from unattached full pay. 1835Marryat Olla Podr. vii, He was put on full pay unattached. 1852Burn Naval & Milit. Dict. s.v. Disponibilité, To place on the unattached list. 1859J. Lang Wand. India 363 As a General of Division, he had been unattached, and had never done a single day's duty. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 445/1 Unattached list, in the British army, officers not attached to regiments.
b. Of clergy: Not attached to a particular diocese or church.
1865Pusey Truth Eng. Ch. 285 note, Lord Westbury has..declared him in fact an unattached Bishop. 1902R. Bagot Donna Diana v. 43 One of the unattached priests to be met with by hundreds in the streets of Rome.
c. Of students: Not attached to any college; non-collegiate. Also transf. and as n.
1870–1Ann. Rep. Deleg. Stud. not attached 16 A Grocers' Company's Exhibitioner and Unattached Student in the University of Oxford. Ibid. 4 The amount of intellectual life and industry developed by the Unattached system. 1897Escott Soc. Transform. Vict. Age xiv. 184 The Davis scholarship in Chinese was for the fifth time won a few years ago by an unattached.
d. In miscellaneous uses.
1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xl, We must get you in the police force..or make you an inspector, unattached. 1893Joyce Short Hist. Irel. 70 The oldest..passed out of the organization altogether, and became an ordinary unattached member of the tribe. 1899Daily News 26 June 8/4 Reporters attached to no particular journal have dashed up with news.., though the importance of the unattached men has waned.
4. a. Not engaged or married. Also absol.
1874L. Carr J. Gwynne II. vii. 184 You lovers have such a provoking way of showing your immense superiority to us unattached creatures. 1897Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 10/1 We are absolutely out of single young ladies just now, and..they specially invited some charming ‘unattached’ from Johannesburg.
b. Not belonging to any family, owner, etc.
1888Pall Mall G. 11 Oct. 11/2 That would bring to decent places the unattached children. 1898Tit-Bits 26 Feb. 420/2, 40000 cats,..of which half are ‘unattached’, and live largely on refuse.
c. Not assigned to any special group.
1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VIII. 855 The Microsporon Audouini is as yet ‘unattached’.
Hence unaˈttachedness.
1936Wirth & Shils tr. Mannheim's Ideology & Utopia iii. iv. 140 The ‘unattachedness’ of the intellectuals. 1981M. Warner Joan of Arc iv. 86 The..unattachedness of the displaced and the poor. |