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unˈchartered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. fig. Not authorized as by the terms of a charter; irregular, lawless.
1805Wordsw. Ode to Duty 37 Me this unchartered freedom tires. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. ix. 215 The unchartered wind that ‘bloweth where it listeth’. 1885Athenæum 25 July 105/1 Faust..has mistaken unchartered freedom and limitless desires for the true human ideal.
2. Not furnished with a charter; not formally privileged or constituted.
1812Weekly Reg. II. 19/2 Those planters..who should place confidence in the paper of unchartered banks. 1818Hallam Mid. Ages (1872) III. 112 The representation of unchartered, or at least unincorporated boroughs. 1822J. Flint Lett. Amer. 283 At the time when this happened, the people had just become jealous of unchartered banks. 1901Harper's Mag. CII. 700/1 The Squatters—or unchartered settlers—roamed, at first, rent free. |