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▪ I. unˈstayed, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 + stay v.1]
Not stayed or stopped; unhindered, unimpeded.
1600Fairfax Tasso xx. xciii. 382 A thunderbolt he was..that..of his comming swift, and flight vnstaid, Eternall signes in hardest rockes hath wrought. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 314 His vast and unstayed understanding. 1820Praed Poems (1864) II. 40 Unchecked, unstayed, he hurries on. 1851Mrs. Browning Casa Guidi Wind. i. 730 To strike electric influence through a race, Unstayed by city⁓wall and barbican.
▪ II. unˈstayed, ppl. a.2
[un-1 8 + stay v.2]
Unsupported, † unstable.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 184 For one kinde thereof [sc. consent] is firme and stedfast, and another weake and vnstayed. 1596Spenser F.Q. vi. i. 20 He..layd On hideous strokes..That oft he made him stagger as vnstayd. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 55 Some young Phaeton, Whose skilless and unstayed Hand May prove the Ruin of the Land. 1881C. Rossetti Pageant, etc., Late Life iii, Bear Thou in mind..our feebleness unstayed Except Thou stay us.
▪ III. unˈstayed, ppl. a.3
[un-1 8 + stay n.2 3.]
Not furnished with, or confined by, stays.
1820Praed Bachelor 97 My waist, unvexed, unstayed, By fetters of the tailor's trade. 1894Idler Sept. 140 In hygienic clothing, A waist and heels deep-loathing, Thy unstayed figure freely flounders.
▪ IV. unstayed
obs. var. unstaid a. |