incuriousadj.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Siii^v/1 Incuriouse, incuriosus.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §4. 270 Can wee thinke, that that prouidence..should bee so supinely incurious, as to slight and neglect the falling of Kingdomes?

1647 Bp. J. Taylor Θεολογία Ἐκλεκτική Ep. Ded. 15 It would be hard to say that such Physitians are incurious of their Patients.

1670 E. Maynwaring Vita Sana & Longa (new ed.) xv. 132 In a threefold manner the Soul..is incurious of the wellfare of the Body.

1703 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion II. vii. 276 In his Cloaths and Habit,..he was not now only incurious, but too negligent.

1737 L. Clarke Compl. Hist. Bible II. vi. 157 But they, incurious of those Hell Torments Judas felt.

1861 J. C. H. Fane & Ld. Lytton Tannhäuser 92 He wander'd forth, incurious of the way.

1613–18 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. (1626) 2 So incurious were they of further knowledg then what concerned their trade.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. v. §7 Papias the Disciple of Saint Iohn, whose times cannot be thought ignorant, or incurious of Iudas History.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. (new ed.) I. 155 There surely was never a nation so incurious and indifferent about truth.

1836 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) III. xii. 188 I am speaking of those of us who have learned to reflect,..not of the incurious or illiterate.

1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni 29 Not with the absent brow and incurious air of students.

1883 Cent. Mag. 25 692/1 Cecil was..incurious about the..lives and character of her two comrades.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 40 Exposed to the Eyes and notice of the more careless and incurious Observer.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. xii. 224 By an incurious View it rather regrateth than pleaseth the Eye.

1759 B. Stillingfleet tr. N. Hasselgren Swedish Pan in Misc. Tracts Nat. Hist. 359 (note) It is a notion which prevails commonly that cows eat the crow~foot..This shews how very incurious the country people are in relation to things they are every day conversant with.

1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 223 Resembles the latter, in the bark and leaf so much, that an incurious eye might be deceived.

1848 R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation (1852) v. 99 He discerns the full meaning of what had at first fallen idly on his incurious ear.

1645 Bp. J. Hall Remedy Discontentm. xix. 116 The meek spirit is incurious; and..takes his load from God (as the Camel from his Master) upon his knees.

1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. V7 Players..Base in action as in clothes: Yet with strutting they will please The incurious Villages.

1728 C. Cibber Vanbrugh's Provok'd Husband Epil. sig. H3 The greatest Blessing Heav'n e'er sent, Is in a Spouse Incurious, and Content.

1749 J. Mason Ess. Power & Harmony Prosaic Numbers 5 Many modern Writers..are so very incurious in this Point, that provided there be Grammar and Thought they seem concerned for nothing else.

1615 T. Adams Blacke Devill 47 2. It [sc. the house] is not sluttish, for it is swept. 3. It is not incurious, for it is garnished.

1630 Bp. J. Hall Occas. Medit. §lxviii No doubt, Eliahs stomache was often vp before that his incurious dyet came.

1647 Bp. J. Hall Holy Rapture §10 Canst thou, O blessed Saviour be so taken with the incurious and homely features of thy faithfull ones.

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks 114 The Angel-Limner must have been but a Blockhead and Bungler at his Art, to draw such rude and incurious Stroaks.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 535 This solid piece of not incurious Sculpture.

1664 Bp. J. Taylor Disswasive from Popery i. iii. 24 They establish no Doctrine, neither curious, nor incurious [printed iucurious].

1747 W. Gould Acct. Eng. Ants 71 The Manner of the Process is not incurious.

1776 R. Twiss Tour Ireland 71 The inscriptions..have never been published, and are not incurious.

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 589 The author of several very rare and not incurious pieces of poetry.