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unˈhinged, ppl. a.
[f. prec.]
1. Thrown into confusion; unsettled, disordered.
1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 509, I might by my loose and unhing'd Circumstances be the fitter to embrace a Proposal for Trade. 1778Pringle Gunnery 23 The unhinged state of this part of the mixed mathematics. 1835Marryat Olla Podr. i. 5 Society is unhinged, and every one is afraid to offer an opinion. 1811Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) I. 243 The moral constitution of our nature is unhinged. 1895J. A. Noble in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 490 A person whose intellectual, moral, or emotional sanity was unhinged.
b. spec. Of persons or the mind.
1732J. Whaley Poems 213 Shall the Mind lie unhing'd by each mad flight? 1757Foote Author i, Last winter..I cou'd have made as good a speech upon any subject,..but I am all unhinged, all. 1811Lamb Shaks. Trag. Wks. 1908 I. 131 Tokens of an unhinged mind. 1836Marryat Japhet xxx, I never felt more nervous or more unhinged.
2. Deprived of hinges; taken off the hinges.
1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 14 An unhinged window-shutter. 1824Galt Rothelan II. iv. iv. 130 Bearing the corpse of a man on an unhinged door. |