loosedadj.
/luːst/, U.S. /lust/ In senses of the verb.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or detachment > loosening or unfastening > [adjective] > not firmly attached or loose
loose?c1225
loosed1580
loosened1821
society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > released from confinement
frank1475
unpenta1592
disimprisoned1611
unjail1613
uncaged1648
unpadlocked1681
unmanacled1805
unloosed1839
disprisoned1842
unconfined1842
unsnaffled1846
bond-stript1855
loosed1887
untaken1893
1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xxii. viii Whose loosed bones quite out of joynt be wried.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia Isagoge sig. B The eares, are moveable..; in horses, and labouring beasts they shew their spirits, being..micant in the fearfull,..and loosed in the sick.
1887 G. Meredith Ballads & Poems 150 He rose like the loosed fountain's utmost leap.
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