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unˈqualified, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not qualified or fitted; not having the necessary qualifications.
1556Lauder Tractate 364 Quhow God sall ȝow correct, Geue ȝe vnqualifeit hirds Elect. 1631Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 73 Allen, being a Vicar in Sudbury and beneficed and unqualifyed, accepted of another living. 1673S'too him Bayes 22 The bishop would not have unqualify'd people read the scriptures. 1780Harris Philol. Enq. i. iv. (1781) 27 As Translators are infinite, and many of them (to borrow a phrase from Sportsmen) unqualified Persons. 1836J. Grant Random Recoll. Ho. Lords ix. 192 He was always the unqualified denouncer of State prosecutions of the press. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at Home 46 It is no use sueing a quack... Why did you employ him? You know he is unqualified.
b. Const. for, or to with inf.
1667Decay Chr. Piety xix. 409 Till he have thus denudated himself..he is utterly unqualified for these Agones. 1689S. Johnson Remarks Sherlock's Bk. 41 A Person may be unqualified by Law, to execute a Commission. 1736Butler Anal. i. v. 113 Capable of naturally becoming qualified for States of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xviii. (1787) II. 109 Dominions which they were unqualified to govern. 1847Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke I. 504 A minister..unqualified for his situation.
2. Not endowed with specific qualities.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. 220 If he neither derived them from..unqualified Matter,..not yet from..an irrational and maleficent soul.
3. Not modified, limited, or restricted.
1796F. Burney Camilla I. 76 [He] could scarce refrain from a smile at this unqualified opening. 1857Prescott Philip II, i. (1857) 145 His ardour did not precipitate him into any unqualified declaration of his passion. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 7 The unsparing and unqualified denunciations of Tyre and Sidon..in Joel and Amos. |