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unˈframed, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] 1. Not formed or moulded, unfashioned.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John vi. 37 b, He fourmeth and fasshyoneth the rude and vnframed witte with certayne principles. 1591Savile Tacitus, Agricola 238 To compose, though in rude and vnframed speech, a memory of our late thraldome. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. i. (1626) 1 The Sea, the Earth, al-couering Heauen vnfram'd, One face had Nature, which they Chaos nam'd. 2. Not set or enclosed in a frame.
1718Pope Lett. (1737) 201 He lugg'd out the tatter'd fragments of an unframed picture. 1885Howells Silas Lapham (1891) I. 13 A large warped, unframed photograph. |