adv. phr. (adj.) Obs. or rare arch. (Also with hyphen,) [See WITHOUT prep. 1. and DOOR 5.]
1. Out of doors, outside the house, in the open air.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 63. Our meat we bought our selues,… and we fetched our beere without doores.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, 27. At the latter end of the year … no brick-work without doores ought to be laid.
1695. A. Telfair, New Confut. Sadd. (1696), 4. The Family being all without-doors.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 83, ¶ 1. When the Weather hinders me from taking my Diversions without Doors.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 621. Without doors they use a kind of wooden patten.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, xxviii. The preparations without doors had not been neglected.
2. transf. and fig. Outside the community (family, nation, etc.); † spec. outside Parliament (= OUT-OF-DOOR, -DOORS A. 2 a).
1697. C. Davenant, Ess. E. India Trade, Wks. 1771, I. 96. Some persons (without doors) … profess themselves open enemies to the traffic in general.
1709. Swift, Adv. Relig., Misc. (1711), 224. Senates are like to have little Regard for any Proposals that come from without Doors.
1723. Dk. Wharton, True Briton, No. 5. I. 43. Those who are Without-Doors should do their Duty by supporting such Patriots.
1769. Junius Lett., xvii. (1812), I. 181. It will not be necessary … to take the trouble of answering … the quotation from a speech without doors.
1792. Burke, Sp., 11 May (1816), IV. 51. The House was untainted … by those false principles which had been so amply circulated without doors.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xiv. He who beat all enemies without doors, found a fair foe who could belabour him within.
3. attrib. or as adj. = prec. b.
1654. Fuller, Comm. Ruth, 139. The Daughters of Sarah, whom the meeknesse of their Sex hath priviledged from following without doors affairs.
