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unproˈvided, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not furnished, supplied, or equipped (with something):
a. Const. of (now rare or Obs.) or with.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxxi. 498 The countre was voyde, and vnprouyded of men of warre. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 114 The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were vnprouided. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme i. xvi. 105 The countrie farme being for the most part vnprouided of the benefits and easements of water. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 45 It being a thing wholly unlikely that the wise Astragon should be unprovided of such excellent authors. 1720Swift Fates of Clergymen Wks. 1755 II. ii. 22 Courts are seldom unprovided of persons under this character. 1735Berkeley in Fraser Life (1871) vii. 241 Those places where they are unprovided with churches. 1785T. Balguy Disc. 174 Men, whose understandings are..unprovided of the principles of knowledge. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii, Assailants..unprovided with regular means of attack. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 102 The actual drone is unprovided by nature with a sting.
b. Without const. Also for (a person, etc.).
(a)a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xii, And whose good haps do leave him unprovided, Condoling cause of friendship he will borrow. 1603G. Powel Papist's Reas. for Toleration 127 Whereby they haue left the Ministrie so marveilously vn⁓prouided and so beggerly. 1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xii. 56 Neither should her Gunroome be vnprouided: not manned like a Merchant-man. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 78 Since you will go, you must not go unprovided. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxv, We are totally and literally unprovided [sc. with provisions]. 1833Macaulay Ess., War Succession in Spain ⁋12 The arsenals were deserted. The magazines were unprovided.
(b)1530Palsgr. 768/2 He shalbe hertely welcome, but I am yet unprovyded for him. 1603Breton Mad World Wks. (Grosart) II. 10/1 He..led me into his house, the doore open, as unfearefull of theeves, as vnprovided for strangers. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 333 As for going by water, that they were unprovided for.
c. Not provided for. (Cf. 4.)
1640Habington Edw. IV, 33 The inconvenience of raising a widdow to his bed, who could bring nothing with her but her poverty, and an unprovided issue. 1892Child Ballads IV. 391/2 The bower of an unprovided seamstress.
2. Not in a state of preparation or readiness; unprepared (to resist attack, make reply, etc.).
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xxxiii. 41/2 So that whan oure enemyes come, let them nat fynde vs vnprouided. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 447 Take me not unawares and unprovided to thy judgment-seat. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 183 If they dye vnprouided. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado, etc. (1878) 334 Alas, faire queene, why should you thus assault the vnprouided fortresse of mine hart? 1647Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. France I. 43 The armed men..appearing on a sudden.., the King being found un⁓provided, and the Court disarmed. 1722De Foe Plague (1756) 140 The unprovided Condition that..the People were in at the first coming of the Calamity. 1805Southey Madoc in Azt. ii. 231 So saying, I left The astonish'd men, whose unprovided minds Fail'd them. 1819Shelley Cenci iii. i. 377 You are unprovided where to fly, How to excuse or to conceal.
3. Against which provision has not (or cannot) be made; unforeseen.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. (Percy Soc.) 9 Nought is more noysom..Than sodayne tempeste, and unprovyded colde. 1536Goodly Primer, Litany R iv b, Sodeyn & vn⁓prouided dethe. 1627C. Mageoghegan tr. Ann. Clonmacnois 75 The Emperor dyed of a sudaine and unprovided death. 1660Trial Regic. 20 You must give your direct Answer, Guilty, or Not guilty. You cannot say, it is sudden, or unprovided. You spend time in vain. 1739in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VIII. 263 Her Death,..by the holy life she led, was not unprovided. 1817F. Lewis in Parl. Debates 1361 Very heavy expenses..under the head called ‘unprovided services,’ which ought to comprise nothing except what could not possibly be foreseen. 1841Alison Hist. Eur. IX. lxxii. 702 The unprovided expenditure of the year.
4. Not provided for. (Cf. 1 c.)
1575Gascoigne Glasse of Govt. ii. v, If ever I live to enherit Phylocalus, then Eccho shall not be unprovided for. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. i. §5 The necessary Subsistence of the household was unprovided for. 1676Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson Wks. 1720 II. 413 They cannot, upon that Pretence, be pressed to Things..wholly unprovided for by the very Letter of the Treaty. 1794S. Williams Vermont 239 Many officers..were then unprovided for. 1839John Bull 15 Sept., The income upon which he and the unprovided for members of his family exist. 1897Outing XXX. 376/2 Unprovided-for tasks are best decided by drawing lots.
5. Not furnished, supplied, or made ready.
1621Fletcher Isl. Princess i. ad fin., That's all That's un⁓provided,..The rest wee'l councel as we goe. 1726Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 21 b, You will have occasion for a great number of things.., and..if but one is unprovided, it may stop or spoil the whole Work.
Hence unproˈvidedly adv., -ness.
1567Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 522 He mycht *unproviditlie oppres..that innocent infant. 1652Urquhart Jewel 112 Another young Lady..so unprovidedly was surprised.
a1652Brome Covent Garden Weeded ii. ii, My unsetlednesse and *unprovidednesse..may well excuse us all. 1861[Mrs. A. J. Penny] Romance Dull Life xl. 296 From the fear of unprovidedness during her stay in this great house. |