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uninˈstructed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not instructed or informed; unenlightened, ignorant. Also const. in, or with clause.
1598Florio, Inerudito,..vntaught, vninstructed. 1660Jer. Taylor Ductor ii. iii. rule 10 §12 By uninstructed is only meant such who have not heard, or could not learn. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. iii. xx. 131 These are utterly uninstructed in the Laws. 1690Dryden Don Sebast. iii. i, That Fool intrudes,..uninstructed how to stem the tide. 1744Harris Three Treat. Wks. (1841) 3 Not even what we do intentionally, if it proceed from mere will and uninstructed instinct. 1785Reid Intell. Powers ii. xx. 326 The most uninstructed peasant. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 268 Women uninstructed in cookery and the management of a family. 1875E. White Life in Christ v. xxviii. 491 To build a credulous assent..on the authority of the uninstructed multitude.
absol.1662Jer. Taylor Fides Formata (1663) 167 Faith.., if it be not followed,..damns deeper than the Hell of the Infidels and uninstructed.
2. Not furnished with instructions.
1892Spectator 21 May 699/1 Its delegates will enter the Convention ‘uninstructed’.
Hence uninˈstructedness.
1833Montgomery Lect. Poetry 333 That perpetual thraldom of uninstructedness (if I may coin such a negative). 1871Jowett Plato I. 170 These base fears and confidences originate in ignorance and uninstructedness. |