undisciplinedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈdɪsᵻplᵻnd/, U.S. /ˌənˈdɪsəplənd/ 1. Not subjected to discipline; untrained.
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society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > undisciplined
undisciplineda1382
undisciplinousa1382
unlateda1449
indisciplinatec1450
society > education > teaching > training > [adjective] > untrained or undisciplined
undisciplineda1382
unschooled1589
uncultivated1796
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Wisd. xvii. 1 For these the vndisciplyned soulis erreden.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. v. 14 Lest thou be take in an vndisciplined wrd, and thou be confoundid.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. v. sig. Cc7 Like this wyld man, being vndisciplynd. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 357 The Warr-intricated Romaines vtterly left Britaine to the vndisciplind Britons.
1665 J. Spencer Disc. Vulgar Prophecies 46 Their undisciplin'd mind is unable to disabuse it self by an appeal to some sober and enduring principles.
1736 G. Berkeley Disc. Magistr. in Wks. (1871) III. 415 The savage state of undisciplined men, whose minds are nurtured to no doctrine.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 137 She was quick to mark The good and evil thing, in human love Undisciplined.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 19 The passions of the people were then nearly as undisciplined.
1892 B. F. Westcott Gospel of Life 285 The fancies of undisciplined enthusiasm.
2. spec. Not properly subjected or submissive to military discipline.
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society > armed hostility > armed forces > [adjective] > qualities
mainc1450
weak1488
unserviceablea1599
new-raised?1609
unrecruited1649
regulated1650
strongish1652
steady1670
mastering1711
undisciplined1718
unbroken1720
reduced1817
sticky1898
mechanicalized1901
u/s1942
society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > undisciplined > specifically of troops
undisciplined1718
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 458 Loose and undisciplin'd the Soldier lay.
1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 177 The French troops are extremely undisciplined.
1846 H. W. Torrens Remarks Uses Mil. Hist. 240 The army..as yet wholly undisciplined by those to whom..new and unwonted authority had been delegated.
1878 R. B. Smith Carthage i. 37 The discipline which he enforced on the most undisciplined of his army.
Derivatives
unˈdisciplinedness n.
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society > authority > lack of power > [noun] > absence of discipline
indisciplinationc1450
undisciplinedness1661
indiscipline1783
undiscipline1827
1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 55 Generous Horses, [acting]..not out of Undisciplinednesse, but purely out of Metall.
1888 E. W. Benson Let. in A. C. Benson Life of E. W. Benson (1899) II. 204 The undisciplinedness of the spirit which despised ‘the day of small things’.
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