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unˈfurnished, ppl. a.
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1. Not furnished, in various senses; unprovided, unequipped, unprepared.
(a)1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) F ij, Exeter..being in the middest of Rebelles, vnuittailed, vnfurnished, vnprepared, for so long a siege. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iv. ii. 10 Go, be gone, we shall be much vnfurnisht for this time. 1599― Hen. V, i. ii. 148 The Scot, on his vnfurnisht Kingdome, Came pouring like the Tyde into a breach. 1601W. T. Ld. Remy's Civ. Considerations ix. heading, Ambassadours of Princes ought not to shew themselues bashfull and vnfurnished. 1638T. Verney in V. Papers (Camden) 197, I need not putt downe tooles for euery trades⁓man, for I beleeue you will not send them unfurnished. 1734Waterland Doctr. Holy Trin. vii. 396 [New servants] who..may be unfurnished for the Employ, or not well affected to his Person and Government. 1822Shelley Chas. I, ii. 266 We want money, and my mind misgives me That for so great an enterprise, as yet, We are unfurnished. 1860Froude Hist. Eng. V. 183 As the treasury was unfurnished, the lords..raised money by every possible shift.
(b)1697Collier Ess. Mor. Subj. i. (1703) 25 What though our Minds were poor, and unfurnished at first. 1731Fielding Grub St. Op. i. ii, Whatever Nature hath done for him in another way, she hath left his head unfurnish'd. 1784Cowper Task iv. 209 All the tricks That idleness has ever yet contriv'd To fill the void of an unfurnish'd brain. 1817Coleridge Biogr. Lit. xvii. (1907) II. 43 An unfurnished or confused understanding.
b. Const. of or with.
(a)1541Act 33 Hen. VIII, c. 9 §2 Other cities..remaine and be vnfurnished of artificers and craftes men before rehersed. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. Ded. A iv, Some nations vnfurnished of frankincense, offer vp milke..to their gods. 1707Norris Treat. Humility Pref. 3 So that..he may not be unfurnished of a competent consideration of the matter in hand. 1802Lamb J. Woodvil i, Nor am I so unfurnish'd, as you think, Of practicable schemes.
(b)1611in Essex Rev. (1906) XV. 155 The sayd place is very muche hindred and unfurnyshed with a convenient Schole howse. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. 41 England being never to be supposed unfurnished with Lead, as bearing it within its own Bowels. 1791Cowper Iliad xvii. 173 Chieftain of excelling form, But all unfurnish'd with a warrior's heart! 1833Chalmers Const. Man v. (1835) I. 211 Because he is so unfurnished with the ideas of justice.
2. Of houses or apartments: Not provided with furniture, spec. not furnished by the landlord or person letting; requiring to be furnished by the tenant or occupant.
1581Anne Askew in Nicolas Hatton's Life & T. (1847) 223 This short warning and my unfurnished house, do ill agree. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. ii. 68 Alacke, and what shall good old Yorke there see But empty lodgings, and vnfurnish'd walles. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1553/4 A Fair House to be Lett Furnished or Unfurnished. 1769Phil. Trans. LIX. 181 An unfurnished room of the Hospital. 1824L. M. Hawkins Annaline II. 268 [He] pays for ships and houses,..the latter he would let if he could either furnished or unfurnished. 1885[W. H. White] M. Rutherford's Deliv. i. (1892) 11 McKay..had unfurnished apartments.
fig.1663Butler Hud. i. i. 162 Such [cobwebs] as take Lodgings in a Head That's to be lett unfurnished.
b. Not fitted up; devoid of the usual fittings, tackle, etc.
1608Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. Schisme 298 Chariots, unfurnisht and unharnest. 1623State Papers, Col., East Indies (1878) 202 They utterly refuse unfurnished ships.
c. Destitute of foliage; defective in flesh.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 151 If the Plant be crooked,..mishapen.., or very much unfurnish'd. 1893Kennel Gaz. Aug. 217/3 The latter [dog] is also smart but quite unfurnished, and his feet are not good.
Hence unˈfurnishedness.
1647Boyle in Birch Life (1744) 82 Trying such experiments, as the unfurnishedness of the place..will permit me. |