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unˈgartered, (ppl.) a.
[un-1 8, 9.]
1. Not tied with or wearing a garter.
1591Shakes. Two Gentl. ii. i. 79 When you chidde at Sir Protheus, for going vngarter'd. 1607Puritan ii. i. 233 A man that would..go vngarterd, vnbuttend, nay, sir Reuerence, vntrust, to Morning Prayer. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 68 Trebius, oblig'd, has that for which he must Break's sleep, and run ungarter'd and untrust. 1749Fielding Tom Jones iv. viii, Catching hold of her ungartered stocking. 1823S. Rogers Italy i. viii. 50 Gliding on, he comes Slip-shod, ungartered. 1828Lytton Pelham. I. xxiv, Thornton..lounged idly in a chair, with one ungartered leg thrown over the elbow.
2. Not invested with the Order of the Garter.
1845Disraeli Sybil iv. xiv, Ireland was not yet governed by the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine, and the Earl de Mowbray was still ungartered. |