ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1749. Mrs. R. Goadby, Carew, ii. (1750), 24. He exchanged his Habit, Shirt and all, for only an old Blanket . Being thus accoutred, or rather unaccoutred, he was now no more than poor Mad Tom.
1780. C. H. Wharton, Poet. Ep. to G. Washington, w. Life, 22. An alert and good militia, acting under very short enlistments, uncloathed, unaccoutred, and at all times very ill supplied with ammunition and artillery.
1832. Fanny Burney, Mem. Dr. Burney, III. 305. Unaccoutred, dressed only in his common garden coat, and wearing no military appendage, or mark of military rank, he found it very difficult to gain admission into the hotel, even as a messenger; for such, only, he called himself.
1919. W. Watson, The Superhuman Antagonists, etc., 60.
He found us drowsed and half unsentinelled, | |
Half unaccoutred and unpanoplied. |