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unpreˈpared, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons: Not in a state of preparation; not ready (for defence, reply, etc.).
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) G ij b, Although ye thinke your selues able to match with a fewe vnprepared Gentle⁓men, and put them from their houses. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 79 Where so euer they fownde any of owre men vn⁓prepared, they slewe them. 1606Daniel Funeral Poem Earl Devon. Wks. (1623) 11 He brauely came to disappoint his foe, And many times surpris'd him vnprepared. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 197 What is more,..renders us in things that most concerne Unpractis'd, unprepar'd, and still to seek. 1695Tryon Dreams i. 3 Such discourses seem very..extravagant to their unprepared Apprehensions. 1760Goldsm. Cit. W. iv, We were overtaken by a heavy shower of rain. I was unprepared; but they..had large coats. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxxvii, Lest the truth should shine Too brightly on the unprepared mind. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 662 Cornish was arrested..and was brought altogether unprepared to the bar of the Old Bailey. 1889Gretton Memory's Harkb. 165 His Lordship requested one of the clergymen..to preach the sermon. Naturally they one and all declined, as unprepared.
absol.a1643S. Godolphin Quatrains ii. 11 The unprepar'd this grace do find, Ye cool and do refresh the mind.
b. Const. for, or to with inf.
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1569) F ij, Exeter..being..vnfurnished, vnprepared, for so long a siege. 1678Proph. & Predict. Jas. Usher (Hindley, III) 11 Look that you be not found unprepared for it. 1722Hamilton Wallace viii. (1816) 135 Wallace..Surpris'd the English, unprepar'd for fight. 1794S. Williams Hist. Vermont 174 That they might not be wholly unprepared to begin their course. 1819Scott Leg. Montrose xvii, Being taken by surprise, they were totally unprepared for resistance. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. i. xv, I am rather unprepared to see you.
c. spec. Not prepared for death.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. ii. 65 'Tis a vile thing to dye,..When men are vnprepar'd. c1600Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 1215 Death at no time finds goodness unprepared. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Maid's Trag. v. i, Stir not; if thou dost, I'le take thee unprepar'd, thy fears upon thee, That make thy sins look double. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. xi, Upon a Death Bed,..that very Thought might justly prove Dismal to an unprepar'd Man. 1796Southey Joan of Arc x. (1853) 124 Hurried the confessor To shrive them, lest with unprepared souls They to their death might go. 1846A. Marsh Father Darcy II. xii. 215 The slaughter of hundreds..of human beings totally unprepared.
transf.1897B. Camm Benedict. Mart. in Eng. i. 31 Carried off by sudden and unprepared death before the priest could be summoned.
†2. Const. of. Not provided with. Obs.—1
1732J. Louthian Form of Process (1752) 45 If the Prisoner, through Ignorance, come unprepared of Lawyers.
3. Not made ready; left, introduced, taken, etc., without special preparation.
1595Shakes. John ii. i. 560 This vnlook'd for vnprepared pompe. a1751Bolingbroke Study Hist. ii. (1752) I. 41 The events we are witnesses of..appear to us very often original, unprepared, single, and un-relative. 1796F. Burney Camilla V. 397 Her sight, thus unprepared,..might be too affecting for his weak frame. 1838G. F. Graham Mus. Comp. 23/2 Monteverde began to introduce unprepared sevenths and ninths. 1858Greener Gunnery 376 An ordinary unprepared gun, taken from a number promiscuously. 1874Pusey Lent. Serm. 8 We take refuge in the thought, that these were not sudden unprepared apostasies. |