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unˈruly, a. (and n.)
Forms: 5–6 vnruely, 6–7 vnrulye, -lie, 6– unruly; 5 onreuli, vnrewely, 6 vnrewly.
[un-1 7 + ruly a.2]
1. Not amenable to rule or discipline; ungovernable; disorderly, turbulent:
a. Of persons.
1400R. de Grey in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. I. 4 Hitt woll be an unruely Cuntrie within short tyme. 1422Yong tr. Secreta Secret. 160 When they were full woxen, prowte, onreuli, fiers, and presumpteous. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1559) U ij, Sith the worlde is so chaungeable, and the people so vnruly. 1592Greene Disput. 20 Ouer kind fathers make vnruly daughters. 1665Boyle Occas. Refl., Disc. §iv. i. 53 That he should of all others prove the most unruly, who alone has been endowed with Reason to rule himself withall. a1715Burnet Own Time i. iv. (1897) I. 108 The dispersing of that little unruly army. 1781Cowper Tiroc. 262, I blame not those who..O'erwatch the num'rous and unruly clan. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvi. III. 685 William had found it no easy matter to decide what course should be taken with that capricious and unruly body. 1896W. K. Leask H. Miller 29 He seems rather to have become an unruly lad.
n. and absol.1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxii. §31. 807/1 These vnrulies presently chose him for their ringleader. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. (1900) 265 All things must be managed here to..the warning of the Unruly. 1782Priestley Inst. Relig. (ed. 2) I. p. xli, We cannot possibly warn all the unruly.
transf.1667Dryden Ind. Emperor iv. iv, Th' unruly Sword will no distinction make. 1888Barrie When a Man's Single xii, She softly pushed the invalid's unruly hair off his brow.
b. Of animals. Also in fig. context.
1565Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Bos, Restie or vnrulie oxen. 1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. 141 b, To keepe the weaker [sheep]..from the strong and vnruly. Ibid. 145 The horned, by reason of theyr weapons, are hurtful, and vnruely. 1627J. Taylor (Water P.) Navy of Land Ships Wks. (1630) 91/1 A ship is an vnruly beast. 1682Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Ess. Poetry 8 The Muses most unruly Horse. 1768–74[see unshaken 2]. a1821V. Knox Serm. Wks. 1824 VI. 196 Like the spirited and unruly steed.
c. Of the heart, tongue, passions, etc.
1526Tyndale Jas. iii. 8 The tonge can no man tame. Yt is an vnruely evyll full off deedly poyson. 1598Barret Theor. Warres i. ii. 11 A generous minde, not subiect vnto passions and vnrulie fits. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 An vnruly heart will breake out one time or other. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 239 When his unruly invention suggests to him an addition to the Text. 1712Pope Spect. No. 408 ⁋7 Young Men whose Passions are not a little unruly. 1729Butler Serm. Wks. 1874 II. 40 To imagine he keeps that unruly faculty [sc. the tongue] in due subjection. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames viii. 262 It is impracticable to control their unruly passions. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. (ed. 3) 293 Nor time nor tune are there, Yet sounds the unruly joy.
d. Characterized by disorder or disquiet.
1439Cases bef. King's Council (Selden) 105 Wawton..seid..it is the unruliest session that I haue euer sey in Bedford. 1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 21 These vnrulye reuels..thee sea king Neptun awaked. 1805Wordsw. Prelude i. 136 The Poet, gentle creature as he is, Hath, like the Lover, his unruly times.
†2. Of things: Unmanageable. Obs.
1577Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 158 When they sitte, with theyr vnruly spurres they breake theyr egges. 1598Florio Dict. To Rdr. 9 A more vnruly..vessell then the biggest hulke on Thames. 1633Herbert Temple, Ch. Porch xli, Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon 9 These Ploughs..if heavier..would sink and be unruly in the mud.
†3. Violent; incurable. Obs.
1596Spenser F.Q. vi. vi. 5 Their wounds..had festred priuily, And ranckling inward with vnruly stounds, The inner parts now gan to putrify. 1606G. Woodcocke Lives Emperors in Hist. Ivstine K k 6 Dying of an vnruly disease.
4. Stormy, tempestuous; impetuous.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 869 Unruly blasts wait on the tender spring; Unwholesome weeds take root. 1605― Macb. ii. iii. 59 The Night ha's been vnruly; Where we lay, our Chimneys were blowne downe. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §449 The standard itself was blown down..by a very strong and unruly wind. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 396 He makes his way o'er Mountains, and contemns Unruly Torrents, and unfoorded Streams. |