unprovidedadj.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnprəˈvʌɪdᵻd/, U.S.

/ˌənprəˈvaɪdᵻd/

Forms: see un- prefix¹ and provide v. and -ed suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, provide v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + provide v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare later provided adj.In sense 2 originally after classical Latin imprōvīsus unforeseen (see improviso adj.).

†1. Not in a state of preparation or readiness; unprepared. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective]

ungraitha1350

undisposedc1380

unreadya1400

dispurveyed14..

unpurveyedc1410

unrayedc1425

unwarnishedc1425

unprovided?a1439

unprepared1528

unprovided for1542

improvided1548

unfurnished1549

unpreparate1575

ungirt1579

disappointed1604

imprompt1760

unaneled1760

unapt1849

flat-footed1912

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 389 See heer his spere, & yiff therto credence, How onprouyded ye were on your partie.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxxiii. f. xli/2 So that whan oure enemyes come, let them nat fynde vs vnprouided [Fr. desgarnis ne despourueuz].

1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 447 Take me not unawares and unprovided to thy judgment-seat.

1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 96 in Strappado Alas, faire queene, why should you thus assault, The vnprouided fortresse of mine hart?

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 162 That na procuratouris ingyre thame selffis to cum to the bar unprovyded to plead ony mater or actioun.

1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 43 The armed men..appearing on a sudden.., The King being found unprovided, and the Court disarmed.

1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 140 The unprovided Condition, that..the People were in at the first coming of this Calamity.

1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 32/2 There never was probably so heavy a storm of national calamity, ready to fall upon an unprovided people.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. ii. 204 So saying, I left The astonished men, whose unprovided minds Failed them.

1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 50 You are unprovided where to fly, How to excuse or to conceal.

2. For which no provision has been (or can be) made; unforeseen. In later use: spec. (of a debt, loan, etc.) not financed, not secured or covered by available funds.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > quality of being unforeseen > [adjective]

unweenOE

unpurveyeda1382

unprovideda1500

unprovised?a1500

improvided1590

unforeseen1651

unforeknown1667

unpredicted1792

unforeboded1818

uncalculated1828

unforetold1846

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adjective] > not provided for

undisposed1421

unprovideda1500

a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 121 (MED) If þinges before seen ofte tymes hurtiþ, what don þan þinges unprouidid [L. improvisa] but hurtiþ greuously?

?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Av^v Nought is more noysom,..Than sodayne tempeste, and unprouyded colde.

1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Miv Sodeyn & vnprouyded death.

1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 20 You must give your direct Answer, Guilty, or Not guilty. You cannot say, it is sudden, or unprovided. You spend time in vain.

1661 C. Mageoghegan tr. Ann. Clonmacnois (BL MS Add. 4817) f. 35 The Emperour died of a suddaine and vnprovided death.

1739 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 263 Her Death,..by the holy life she led, was not unprovided.

1791 R. V. Clarendon Sketch Revenue & Finances of Ireland 97 The unprovided arrear was greater than the funded debt.

1820 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 1 806 Under the head of unprovided services in the ordnance department the amount stated was 40,000l.

1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxxii. 348 The unprovided expenditure of the year.

1902 Standard 15 Mar. 29/1 The new building, with furnishings, cost over $8,000. The unprovided debt is $3,950.

1995 Times 2 Nov. 29/4 The company's soundness is undermined by huge, unprovided liabilities.

a. With with, †of. Not equipped or supplied with a specified thing.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > not provided or equipped with something

unbounda1300

unpurveyed?1397

unprovided1513

unprovided1530

unbestoweda1535

improvided1569

dispurveyed1574

unsupplied1599

unaccommodated1608

unprepared1608

disprovided1864

1513 T. Howard Warrant in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/4/250) f.193 I entende to tary her in the downys for the cummyng of the Scottissh flete and as nowe vnprovidyd of Beere for this hoole armye by cause of contrary wyndys.

1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxi. 498 The countre was voyde, and vnprouyded of men of warre.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 114 The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were vnprouided.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xvi. 105 The countrie farme being for the most part vnprouided of the benefits and easements of water.

1641 A. Mervyn Speech to Lords May 24 (new ed.) 12 The Sophisters of Law in this Kingdome may finde that King not unprovided with his answer.

1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 45 It being a thing wholly unlikely that the wise Astragon should be unprovided of such excellent authors.

1735 G. Berkeley Let. 11 June in Wks. (1871) IV. vii. 241 Those places where they are unprovided with churches.

1785 T. Balguy Disc. Various Subj. 174 Men, whose understandings are..unprovided of the principles of knowledge.

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 118 Assailants..unprovided with regular means of attack.

1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 92 The actual drone is unprovided by nature with a sting.

1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 59/1 Stoves unprovided with chimneys.

2001 Times 4 Sept. 15/3 The lower-paid people, now unprovided with pensions, are not going to be covered by stakeholder pensions.

b. Not equipped or supplied with the necessary provisions or resources (†for a particular person or purpose).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > not provided or equipped with something

unbounda1300

unpurveyed?1397

unprovided1513

unprovided1530

unbestoweda1535

improvided1569

dispurveyed1574

unsupplied1599

unaccommodated1608

unprepared1608

disprovided1864

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 768/2 He shalbe hertely welcome, but I am yet unprovyded for him.

1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles f. iv^v (margin) The sonday before in the court at dyner vpon complaynt of the Deane that he was vnprouided, the lorde great chamberlain named me whiche I coulde not refuse.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xii. sig. X6^v And whose good haps do leaue him vnprouided, Condoling cause of friendship he will borrow.

1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 18 He..led me into his house, the doore open, as vnfearefull of theeues, or vnprouided for strangers.

1604 G. Powel Consideration Papists Reas. for Toleration 127 Whereby they haue left the Ministrie so marveilously vnprouided and so beggerly.

1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 Neither should her Gunroome be vnprouided: not manned like a Merchant-man.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 178 As for going by Water, that they were unprovided for.

1757 Lett. from Armenian in Ireland xxx. 222 Never went an unprovided Guest.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 155 Since you will go, you must not go unprovided.

1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 266 We are totally and literally unprovided [i.e. with provisions].

1833 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 504 The arsenals were deserted. The magazines were unprovided.

1936 Chem. Age. 21 Mar. 251/1 The great majority of the unprovided houses [i.e. with a gas supply] must be cottages.

1992 Admin. Sci. Q. 37 458 New SLAs [= savings and loan associations] were founded only in unprovided areas.

c. Of a person: not provided for in terms of financial maintenance. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > unprovided for

unpurveyeda1492

unprovided for1542

unprovided1574

1574 Edinb. Test. III. f. 183, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unprovidit Tua lauchfull bairnes of the said vmquhile Thomas..vnprouidit nor forisfamiliat.

1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 33 The inconvenience of raising a widdow to his bed, who could bring nothing with her but her poverty, and an unprovided issue.

1697 W. Jameson Nazianzeni Querela i. viii. 51 These Revenues should be imploy'd on sustentation of Ministers, many of whom, being unprovided, were ready to starve.

1793 M. Pilkington Rosina I. xii. 84 When there is no lawful impediments, such as a parcel of unprovided children,..I can see no reason why an elderly man may not get himself a wife.

1839 London Sat. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 162/1 It is in his power to remove the despair of the unprovided widow.

1892 F. J. Child Ballads IV. 391/2 The bower of an unprovided seamstress.

1995 E. Copeland Women writing about Money (2004) vii. 209 Is there any salvation at all in this world, she asks implicitly, for unprovided women?

4. That is not or has not been supplied or provided.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > that is provided > not

unpurveyed1449

unprovided1549

unsupplied1808

1549 J. Ponet tr. B. Ochino Tragoedie Unjuste Usurped Primacie sig. Aa.iii^v Is it to be beleued that muche lesse he [sc. Christ] woulde leaue anye of those necessaries vnprouyded, whiche shoulde apartayne to the spirituall lyfe.

a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnn2/2 That's all That's unprovided,..The rest wee'l councel as we goe.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 21 b You will have occasion for a great number of things.., and..if but one is unprovided, it may stop or spoil the whole Work.

1788 T. Coke Let. 9 Dec. in Some Acct. Late Missionaries to West Indies (1789) i. 3 He left nothing unprovided, which he thought might be necessary, or in any wise commodious for us.

1882 Contract 16 June in Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin (1889) 73 421 It shall be lawful for the party of the second part..to employ such other person or persons as said party of the second part shall think fit or necessary to furnish such unprovided materials.

1913 H. Stewart Provinc. Russia v. 86 Here and there wails a half-wild cat, foraging for unprovided food.

1989 A. Kadish Historians, Economists, & Econ. Hist. vii. 177 The school's other primary aim was to offer a three-year course in empirical research of a type unprovided by any of the other universities.

1998 Atlanta (Georgia) Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Aug. 1 d A psychiatrist..bilked the state out of millions of dollars by charging for unprovided medical services.

Compounds

(Cf. note at un- prefix¹ 2c.)

unprovided for adj. not provided for; not supplied with the necessary provisions or resources; not anticipated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective]

ungraitha1350

undisposedc1380

unreadya1400

dispurveyed14..

unpurveyedc1410

unrayedc1425

unwarnishedc1425

unprovided?a1439

unprepared1528

unprovided for1542

improvided1548

unfurnished1549

unpreparate1575

ungirt1579

disappointed1604

imprompt1760

unaneled1760

unapt1849

flat-footed1912

the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > connected with or providing maintenance or support > not provided for

unprovided for1542

the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > unprovided for

unpurveyeda1492

unprovided for1542

unprovided1574

1542 T. Becon in M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Golden Bk. Christen Matrimonye Pref. sig. A.vi Why do we..spende awaye so vnthriftely all that euer we haue.., and leaue our poore wyues and chyldren at home socoureles and vnprouyded for?

1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. ii. v. sig. Eiiii If euer I liue to enherit Phylocalus, then Eccho shall not be vnprouided for.

1676 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson in Wks. (1720) II. 413 They cannot, upon that Pretence, be pressed to Things..wholly unprovided for by the very Letter of the Treaty.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 The necessary Subsistance of the household was unprovided for.

1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 239 Many officers..were then unprovided for.

1814 Abstr. Ann. Rep. & Corr. Soc. Promoting Christian Knowl. 609 I may soon be gone, and the Mission be an unprovided-for orphan.

1897 Outing 30 376/2 Unprovided-for tasks are best decided by drawing lots.

1921 J. T. Adams Founding New Eng. xvi. 410 The situation..was unprovided for in the theory of the constitution.

1969 Philos. Rev. 78 178 At least some of these examples are unprovided for in the definitions so far proposed.

2010 Independent (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Information section) 16 A man dies in a Mexico City shopping mall, leaving his wife and three teenage children unprovided for.

Derivatives

† unprovidedly adv. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb]

unmindlingOE

unsupposedc1425

unweeninglyc1480

ex improviso1521

unprovidedly1539

unexpectedly1605

unhopedly1611

unimagined1614

inexpectedly1626

startlinglya1645

surprisingly1667

unhoped1667

astonishingly1668

staggeringlya1682

shockingly1741

outrageously1749

funnily1837

shockingly1883

amazingly1928

1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre iii. xvii. sig. L^v Emilius Paulus Campe was vnprouidedly assayled of all the Lygurians together.

1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 522 He mycht unproviditlie oppres..that innocent infant.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 112 Another young Lady,..so unprovidedly was surprised.

unproˈvidedness n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something

missOE

tharningc1175

missinga1375

lacking1377

wantingc1390

necessitya1393

destitutiona1440

poverty?1440

misture1563

unprovidedness1606

unprovision1631

wantingness1643

carency1655

nudity1656

destituteness1818

1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. M The Shiriffes..hunted as hotly after them, as..the vnprouidednesse of their people vpon that sudden could permit them.

1705 J. Michelborne Ireland Preserv'd ii. iv. 85 I see no probability of making any Defence, considering our Unprovidedness for Action.

1845 Ladies' National Mag. (Philadelphia) Jan. 9/1 She cried heartily for several minutes about her unprovidedness.

1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman v. 356 It was the inconsequence and unprovidedness of Jamie's illness which distressed him most.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	unprovided
释义	unprovidedadj. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnprəˈvʌɪdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənprəˈvaɪdᵻd/ Forms: see un- prefix¹ and provide v. and -ed suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, provide v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + provide v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare later provided adj.In sense 2 originally after classical Latin imprōvīsus unforeseen (see improviso adj.). †1. Not in a state of preparation or readiness; unprepared. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] ungraitha1350 undisposedc1380 unreadya1400 dispurveyed14.. unpurveyedc1410 unrayedc1425 unwarnishedc1425 unprovided?a1439 unprepared1528 unprovided for1542 improvided1548 unfurnished1549 unpreparate1575 ungirt1579 disappointed1604 imprompt1760 unaneled1760 unapt1849 flat-footed1912 a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 389 See heer his spere, & yiff therto credence, How onprouyded ye were on your partie. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxxiii. f. xli/2 So that whan oure enemyes come, let them nat fynde vs vnprouided [Fr. desgarnis ne despourueuz]. 1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 447 Take me not unawares and unprovided to thy judgment-seat. 1615 R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 96 in Strappado Alas, faire queene, why should you thus assault, The vnprouided fortresse of mine hart? c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 162 That na procuratouris ingyre thame selffis to cum to the bar unprovyded to plead ony mater or actioun. 1647 C. Cotterell & W. Aylesbury tr. E. C. Davila Hist. Civill Warres France i. 43 The armed men..appearing on a sudden.., The King being found unprovided, and the Court disarmed. 1722 D. Defoe Jrnl. Plague Year 140 The unprovided Condition, that..the People were in at the first coming of this Calamity. 1763 Ann. Reg. 1762 32/2 There never was probably so heavy a storm of national calamity, ready to fall upon an unprovided people. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. ii. 204 So saying, I left The astonished men, whose unprovided minds Failed them. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 50 You are unprovided where to fly, How to excuse or to conceal. 2. For which no provision has been (or can be) made; unforeseen. In later use: spec. (of a debt, loan, etc.) not financed, not secured or covered by available funds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > quality of being unforeseen > [adjective] unweenOE unpurveyeda1382 unprovideda1500 unprovised?a1500 improvided1590 unforeseen1651 unforeknown1667 unpredicted1792 unforeboded1818 uncalculated1828 unforetold1846 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adjective] > not provided for undisposed1421 unprovideda1500 a1500 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi (Trin. Dublin) (1893) 121 (MED) If þinges before seen ofte tymes hurtiþ, what don þan þinges unprouidid [L. improvisa] but hurtiþ greuously? ?1518 A. Barclay Fyfte Eglog sig. Av^v Nought is more noysom,..Than sodayne tempeste, and unprouyded colde. 1538 Prymer in Eng. after Vse of Sarum sig. Miv Sodeyn & vnprouyded death. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 20 You must give your direct Answer, Guilty, or Not guilty. You cannot say, it is sudden, or unprovided. You spend time in vain. 1661 C. Mageoghegan tr. Ann. Clonmacnois (BL MS Add. 4817) f. 35 The Emperour died of a suddaine and vnprovided death. 1739 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 263 Her Death,..by the holy life she led, was not unprovided. 1791 R. V. Clarendon Sketch Revenue & Finances of Ireland 97 The unprovided arrear was greater than the funded debt. 1820 Parl. Deb. 2nd Ser. 1 806 Under the head of unprovided services in the ordnance department the amount stated was 40,000l. 1841 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. IX. lxxii. 348 The unprovided expenditure of the year. 1902 Standard 15 Mar. 29/1 The new building, with furnishings, cost over $8,000. The unprovided debt is $3,950. 1995 Times 2 Nov. 29/4 The company's soundness is undermined by huge, unprovided liabilities. 3. a. With with, †of. Not equipped or supplied with a specified thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > not provided or equipped with something unbounda1300 unpurveyed?1397 unprovided1513 unprovided1530 unbestoweda1535 improvided1569 dispurveyed1574 unsupplied1599 unaccommodated1608 unprepared1608 disprovided1864 1513 T. Howard Warrant in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/4/250) f.193 I entende to tary her in the downys for the cummyng of the Scottissh flete and as nowe vnprovidyd of Beere for this hoole armye by cause of contrary wyndys. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. cccxxi. 498 The countre was voyde, and vnprouyded of men of warre. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 114 The shepheards God so wel them guided, That of nought they were vnprouided. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xvi. 105 The countrie farme being for the most part vnprouided of the benefits and easements of water. 1641 A. Mervyn Speech to Lords May 24 (new ed.) 12 The Sophisters of Law in this Kingdome may finde that King not unprovided with his answer. 1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 45 It being a thing wholly unlikely that the wise Astragon should be unprovided of such excellent authors. 1735 G. Berkeley Let. 11 June in Wks. (1871) IV. vii. 241 Those places where they are unprovided with churches. 1785 T. Balguy Disc. Various Subj. 174 Men, whose understandings are..unprovided of the principles of knowledge. 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen viii. 118 Assailants..unprovided with regular means of attack. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues II. 92 The actual drone is unprovided by nature with a sting. 1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 1 Jan. 59/1 Stoves unprovided with chimneys. 2001 Times 4 Sept. 15/3 The lower-paid people, now unprovided with pensions, are not going to be covered by stakeholder pensions. b. Not equipped or supplied with the necessary provisions or resources (†for a particular person or purpose). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > not provided or equipped with something unbounda1300 unpurveyed?1397 unprovided1513 unprovided1530 unbestoweda1535 improvided1569 dispurveyed1574 unsupplied1599 unaccommodated1608 unprepared1608 disprovided1864 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 768/2 He shalbe hertely welcome, but I am yet unprovyded for him. 1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles f. iv^v (margin) The sonday before in the court at dyner vpon complaynt of the Deane that he was vnprouided, the lorde great chamberlain named me whiche I coulde not refuse. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xii. sig. X6^v And whose good haps do leaue him vnprouided, Condoling cause of friendship he will borrow. 1603 N. Breton Merrie Dialogue 18 He..led me into his house, the doore open, as vnfearefull of theeues, or vnprouided for strangers. 1604 G. Powel Consideration Papists Reas. for Toleration 127 Whereby they haue left the Ministrie so marveilously vnprouided and so beggerly. 1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 56 Neither should her Gunroome be vnprouided: not manned like a Merchant-man. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 178 As for going by Water, that they were unprovided for. 1757 Lett. from Armenian in Ireland xxx. 222 Never went an unprovided Guest. 1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 155 Since you will go, you must not go unprovided. 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 266 We are totally and literally unprovided [i.e. with provisions]. 1833 T. B. Macaulay in Edinb. Rev. Jan. 504 The arsenals were deserted. The magazines were unprovided. 1936 Chem. Age. 21 Mar. 251/1 The great majority of the unprovided houses [i.e. with a gas supply] must be cottages. 1992 Admin. Sci. Q. 37 458 New SLAs [= savings and loan associations] were founded only in unprovided areas. c. Of a person: not provided for in terms of financial maintenance. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > unprovided for unpurveyeda1492 unprovided for1542 unprovided1574 1574 Edinb. Test. III. f. 183, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Unprovidit Tua lauchfull bairnes of the said vmquhile Thomas..vnprouidit nor forisfamiliat. 1640 W. Habington Hist. Edward IV 33 The inconvenience of raising a widdow to his bed, who could bring nothing with her but her poverty, and an unprovided issue. 1697 W. Jameson Nazianzeni Querela i. viii. 51 These Revenues should be imploy'd on sustentation of Ministers, many of whom, being unprovided, were ready to starve. 1793 M. Pilkington Rosina I. xii. 84 When there is no lawful impediments, such as a parcel of unprovided children,..I can see no reason why an elderly man may not get himself a wife. 1839 London Sat. Jrnl. 16 Mar. 162/1 It is in his power to remove the despair of the unprovided widow. 1892 F. J. Child Ballads IV. 391/2 The bower of an unprovided seamstress. 1995 E. Copeland Women writing about Money (2004) vii. 209 Is there any salvation at all in this world, she asks implicitly, for unprovided women? 4. That is not or has not been supplied or provided. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > that is provided > not unpurveyed1449 unprovided1549 unsupplied1808 1549 J. Ponet tr. B. Ochino Tragoedie Unjuste Usurped Primacie sig. Aa.iii^v Is it to be beleued that muche lesse he [sc. Christ] woulde leaue anye of those necessaries vnprouyded, whiche shoulde apartayne to the spirituall lyfe. a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse i. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Nnn2/2 That's all That's unprovided,..The rest wee'l councel as we goe. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 21 b You will have occasion for a great number of things.., and..if but one is unprovided, it may stop or spoil the whole Work. 1788 T. Coke Let. 9 Dec. in Some Acct. Late Missionaries to West Indies (1789) i. 3 He left nothing unprovided, which he thought might be necessary, or in any wise commodious for us. 1882 Contract 16 June in Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin (1889) 73 421 It shall be lawful for the party of the second part..to employ such other person or persons as said party of the second part shall think fit or necessary to furnish such unprovided materials. 1913 H. Stewart Provinc. Russia v. 86 Here and there wails a half-wild cat, foraging for unprovided food. 1989 A. Kadish Historians, Economists, & Econ. Hist. vii. 177 The school's other primary aim was to offer a three-year course in empirical research of a type unprovided by any of the other universities. 1998 Atlanta (Georgia) Jrnl. & Constit. (Nexis) 12 Aug. 1 d A psychiatrist..bilked the state out of millions of dollars by charging for unprovided medical services. Compounds (Cf. note at un- prefix¹ 2c.) unprovided for adj. not provided for; not supplied with the necessary provisions or resources; not anticipated. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] ungraitha1350 undisposedc1380 unreadya1400 dispurveyed14.. unpurveyedc1410 unrayedc1425 unwarnishedc1425 unprovided?a1439 unprepared1528 unprovided for1542 improvided1548 unfurnished1549 unpreparate1575 ungirt1579 disappointed1604 imprompt1760 unaneled1760 unapt1849 flat-footed1912 the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > connected with or providing maintenance or support > not provided for unprovided for1542 the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > unprovided for unpurveyeda1492 unprovided for1542 unprovided1574 1542 T. Becon in M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Golden Bk. Christen Matrimonye Pref. sig. A.vi Why do we..spende awaye so vnthriftely all that euer we haue.., and leaue our poore wyues and chyldren at home socoureles and vnprouyded for? 1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. ii. v. sig. Eiiii If euer I liue to enherit Phylocalus, then Eccho shall not be vnprouided for. 1676 W. Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson in Wks. (1720) II. 413 They cannot, upon that Pretence, be pressed to Things..wholly unprovided for by the very Letter of the Treaty. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 5 The necessary Subsistance of the household was unprovided for. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 239 Many officers..were then unprovided for. 1814 Abstr. Ann. Rep. & Corr. Soc. Promoting Christian Knowl. 609 I may soon be gone, and the Mission be an unprovided-for orphan. 1897 Outing 30 376/2 Unprovided-for tasks are best decided by drawing lots. 1921 J. T. Adams Founding New Eng. xvi. 410 The situation..was unprovided for in the theory of the constitution. 1969 Philos. Rev. 78 178 At least some of these examples are unprovided for in the definitions so far proposed. 2010 Independent (Nexis) 13 Nov. (Information section) 16 A man dies in a Mexico City shopping mall, leaving his wife and three teenage children unprovided for. Derivatives † unprovidedly adv. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > [adverb] unmindlingOE unsupposedc1425 unweeninglyc1480 ex improviso1521 unprovidedly1539 unexpectedly1605 unhopedly1611 unimagined1614 inexpectedly1626 startlinglya1645 surprisingly1667 unhoped1667 astonishingly1668 staggeringlya1682 shockingly1741 outrageously1749 funnily1837 shockingly1883 amazingly1928 1539 R. Morison tr. Frontinus Strategemes & Policies Warre iii. xvii. sig. L^v Emilius Paulus Campe was vnprouidedly assayled of all the Lygurians together. 1567 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 522 He mycht unproviditlie oppres..that innocent infant. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 112 Another young Lady,..so unprovidedly was surprised. unproˈvidedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something missOE tharningc1175 missinga1375 lacking1377 wantingc1390 necessitya1393 destitutiona1440 poverty?1440 misture1563 unprovidedness1606 unprovision1631 wantingness1643 carency1655 nudity1656 destituteness1818 1606 True Relation Proc. at Arraignm. Late Traitors sig. M The Shiriffes..hunted as hotly after them, as..the vnprouidednesse of their people vpon that sudden could permit them. 1705 J. Michelborne Ireland Preserv'd ii. iv. 85 I see no probability of making any Defence, considering our Unprovidedness for Action. 1845 Ladies' National Mag. (Philadelphia) Jan. 9/1 She cried heartily for several minutes about her unprovidedness. 1966 W. Percy Last Gentleman v. 356 It was the inconsequence and unprovidedness of Jamie's illness which distressed him most. 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