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unˈlearned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. unleared ppl. a. and OHG. ungelirnêt (MHG. -lërnet, -lehrnt, G. -lernt).]
1. Not possessed of learning; uninstructed; untaught; ignorant.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xvii. 184 How it semethe to symple men unlerned, that [etc.]. c1420Wycliffite Bible (1850) I. 67/2 Bothe of the lerned man and vnlerned. 14..Lat. & Eng. Prov. (MS. Douce 52) fol. 27 Better is a chylde vnborne þen vnlerned. 1537in Bury Wills (Camden) 131 Because I am rude and vnlernyd, and know not the scriptur. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Luke x. 21 margin, The humble vnlearned Catholike knoweth Christ better than the proud learned Heretike. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxix. 169 These three opinions..proceeded chiefly from the tongues, and pens of unlearned Divines. 1699Bentley Phal. 331 Andronicus's name was prefix'd to it by a Modern and a very Unlearned Hand. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 450, I will now..give a free translation of it for the sake of your unlearned readers. 1854Whittier Maud Muller 79 She wedded a man unlearned and poor. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 198 But if you were not wise you were unlearned.
b. spec. (See quots.)
1643Baker Chron. (1653) 236 Another Parliament.., named the unlearned Parliament, either for the unlearnednesse of the persons, or for their malice to learned men. 1878Stubbs Const. Hist. III. xx. 401 The year 1404, when Henry IV stirred up strife by excluding lawyers from his ‘unlearned parliament’ [at Coventry].
2. absol. Those who have no learning.
c1500Babees Bk., etc. (1868) 23/126 In þi dysch sette not þi spone,..os vn-lernyd done. 1549Olde Erasm. Par. Ephesians Prol. to Rdr. C ii, To seke the edification of the playne vnlearned. 1578Bible (Geneva) Pref. to Christian Reader, I haue so done for the vnlearneds sake. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. v. 50 He useth variety of names, that his work may not easily be understood by the unlearned. 1712Addison Spect. No. 457 ⁋4 An Account of the Works of the Unlearned. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Art of Poetry 644 With all the Horrours of a desperate Muse The Learned and Unlearned he pursues. 1886Fortn. Rev. Oct. 508 We must acknowledge, too, that experts know better than the unlearned.
3. Not skilled or versed in something.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Rudis, Vnlearned in the Greeke tongue. c1600Shakes. Sonn. cxxxviii, Some vntuterd youth, Vnlearned in the worlds false subtilties. 1607― Timon iv. iii. 56, I know thee well: But in thy Fortunes am vnlearn'd, and strange. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 150 Unlearn'd in all th' industrious arts of toil. 1833Tennyson To J. S. v, Alas! In grief I am not all unlearn'd. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay viii, Unlearned in the world's lore which was so familiar to himself!
4. Characterized by want of learning; pertaining to the unlearned class.
1526Tindale 2 Tim. ii. 23 Folisshe and vnlearned questions. 1589Marprel. Epit. D iij b, His booke is a carnall and vnlearned booke. 1604Herring Def. Caveat (title-p.), That unlearned and dangerous opinion. c1657Cowley Ode Dr. Harvey v, A barb'rous Wars unlearned Rage. 1785Burke Sp. Nabob Arcot Wks. IV. 316 The unlearned and vulgar passion of admiration. 1844Stanley Arnold (1858) II. 146 An unlearned familiarity with the Scriptures. 1875Whitney Life Lang. x. 187 The unlearned speech of the lower orders.
5. Not acquired by learning. (Cf. unlearnt.)
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C v, That there shuld be nothyng vnlerned of hym, he aboue all sciences sette his mynd to Cosmography. 1607Markham Cavel. iii. i. 4 My first Arte were better vnlearned then for want of this latter to doe euill by misimployment. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 178 'Tis wonder That an inuisible instinct should frame them To Royalty vnlearn'd, Honor vntaught. 1644Milton Educ. 3 Mispending our prime youth..in learning meere words or such things chiefly, as were better unlearnt. |