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unˈtaught, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not enlightened or trained by teaching; uninstructed, ignorant.
c1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 5873 Maysters [shall give account] of þair disciples..Þat þai lete be unthewed, and untaght ga. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. viii. 5 Comune thou not to a man vntaȝt. c1460Play Sacram. 558 [636] Syr, thu art ontawght to come in thus henly [sic]. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. i. i. G vj, The greater companye, in vertue few, and base, Vntaught blockheads, braineles. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 43 He call'd them vntaught Knaues, Vnmannerly. 16022nd Pt. Return Parnass. v. i. 1986 With vntaught hand, and with vntuned hart. 1649Davenant Love & Hon. iii. ii. 3 Fit only to perswade the easinesse Of untaught babes. 1709Steele Tatler No. 167 ⁋1 The rude and untaught Multitude. 1784Cowper Task ii. 359 He teaches those to read, whom schools dismiss'd, And colleges, untaught. 1847C. Brontë J. Eyre xxxii, Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me hopelessly dull. 1882Besant All Sorts xxviii, The crude theories of untaught, if generous, youth.
absol.1382Wyclif 1 Chron. xxv. 8 Thei leyden lottis by their whilis euenly,..the tauȝt and vntauȝt to gyder. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Substantive, The Taught have the Advantage of the Untaught. a1832Crabbe Posth. Tales ii. 169 He knew not how For the untaught and ill-taught to allow.
Prov.c1530in Songs, Carols, etc. (E.E.T.S.) 129 Better it is to be wnborne than wntawght. 1557F. S[eager] School Virtue C iij, The common prouerbe remember ye oughte, ‘Better vnfedde then vn-taughte’.
b. Const. with inf., in, or objective complement.
1581Howell Devises M ij, Like a childe agayne, vntaught the sleightes of dayntie mindes. a1593Marlowe Hero & Leander i. 392 Her mind pure, and her toong vntaught to glose. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. 42 Untought In subtilties they shew themselves in jangling stout. 1683Dryden Ovid's Ep., Helen to Paris 139 My hand is yet untaught to write to Men. 1762Sir W. Jones Arcadia Poems, etc. (1772) 135 Daphne, yet untaught in am'rous lore, Felt..pains unknown before. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 379 Untaught The knowledge of the world, and dull of thought! 1794Wordsw. Guilt & Sorrow xxxiii, We gazed with terror on their gloomy sleep, Untaught that soon such anguish must ensue. 1827Keble Chr. Y., Convers. St. Paul vi, His strain'd eye..Still gazing, though untaught to bear Th' insufferable light.
c. Of animals, etc.
1697Dryden æneis vi. 348 Four sable bullocks, in the yoke untaught. 1725Pope Odyss. vii. 153 The balmy spirit of the western gale Eternal breathes on fruits untaught to fail. 1743Francis tr. Hor., Epodes xvi. 57 Where Goats untaught forsake the flowery Vale. 1817Byron Mazeppa ix, A noble steed,..Wild as the wild deer, and untaught. 1863Conington Horace, Odes iii. iii. 14 For this..tigers drew Thy glorious car, untaught to slave In harness.
2. Not imparted or acquired by teaching; hence, natural, spontaneous.
c1445Pecock Donet 6 Bettir it is..þan forto leve alle suche þingis vnwritun and vntauȝt. c1449― Repr. i. xx. 127 This other maner of..witnessing bi Holi Scripture, which is left here vnseid and vntauȝt. 1533More Answ. Supper of Lord i. xvii. Wks. 1064/1 Leauing that vntaught til y⊇ time of his maundy supper. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. xxiv, Delivering from his hart two or three (untaught) sighes. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 178 'Tis wonder That an inuisible instinct should frame them To Royalty vnlearn'd, Honor vntaught. 1656Cowley Davideis i. 821 Flocks of Birds..Teaching their Maker in their untaught lays. 1712Steele Spect. No. 276 ⁋3, I have a natural Voice, and a pretty untaught Step in Dancing. 1742Gray Spring 7 The untaught harmony of spring. 1836Card. Wiseman Lect. Cath. Ch. (1847) 3 Many doctrines untaught by Him. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. ii. 19 The untaught signs made by born deaf-mutes.
Hence unˈtaughtness.
1840S. Clark in Mem. Jrnls. & Lett. (1878) 131, I have to suffer from my untaughtness. |