1534 G. Burton Let. 26 Jan. in Lisle Papers (P.R.O.: SP 3/10/58) f. 76 Wherof I had dyuers and many tymes warned hym of byfore towching his vnprestely behaveyour.

1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 66 Kynge Edgare..rebuked the prestes..for..their vnprestlye aparellynges.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 483/2 The two vniust Intruders on the Crowne;..the one by vnprincely forces, the other by vnpriestlie fraud.

1689 S. Blackerby Hist. Acct. Penal Laws vii. 29 [They]..ask'd them how they could excuse these designs so Unchristian, so unpriestly, so Treacherous, and so unprince-like?

1710 C. Buchanan Unity & Unanimity 15 What..sneaking, unpriestly compliances will not a Proud Clergy-Man submit to, that has set his Heart upon preferment?

1790 T. Pennant Of London 19 The people, enraged at his unpriestly conduct, would have torn him to pieces.

1837 J. H. Newman Lect. Prophetical Office Church 403 The Asmonæans, who, besides their unpriestly character, were many of them stained with crimes.

1894 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 22 74 He even undertook to clear the land like a farmer, though he was often ridiculed for assuming unpriestly functions.

1906 E. A. Steiner On Trail of Immigrant xxiv. 349 Two Polish priests..who rose to a spiritual ecstasy which was both unpriestly and ungentlemanly.

1999 A. Arensberg Incubus ii. v. 50 Instead of worrying about my husband's unpriestly obsessions, I should have been hoping it would sustain him.

1554 E. Bonner Articles sig. Aiij Whether they..vse common games or playes, or behaue themselfes otherwyse vnpriestly and vnsemely.

1601 W. Watson in J. Mush Dialogue Secular Priest & Lay Gentleman To Rdr. sig. **iij The Iesuits very pollitickely (but most impiously, maliciously, and vnpriestly) imagining that in the end, this course taken, would occasionate all the Catholicks in England to side with the Secular Priests.