unpoliciedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɒlᵻsɪd/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɑləsid/ Now archaic and rare.
Not politically or socially organized. Also occasionally (of land, etc.): not improved or cultivated.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > unaffectedness or naturalness > [adjective] > artless, guileless, or innocent > lacking cunning or not plotting
unpolicieda1616
undesigning1695
unintriguing1755
unstrategic1834
society > authority > rule or government > politics > [adjective] > relating to affairs of state > without policy
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 303 Oh could'st thou speake, That I might heare thee call great Cæsar Asse, vnpolicied . View more context for this quotation
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 448 The unpolicied Schollar.
1738 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses I. 75 Whole Nations modern Savages..being yet unpolicied, and in a State of Nature.
1844 London Med. Gaz. 10 May 182/2 Consumptive diseases..run their course much more rapidly..among unpolicied nations than among civilized communities.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson Weir of Hermiston (1896) v. 100 It would have tasked a landscape gardener to say where policy ended and unpolicied nature began.
1947 W. H. Auden in Amer. Scholar Autumn 404 The unamerican survivor Hears angels drinking fruit-juice with their wives Or making money in an open Unpolicied air.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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