ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not allied or related.
1663. Boyle, Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos., II. v. 290. The greater their experience … the greater indisposition it would give them to credit so unallied a truth.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., II. (1703), 85. Extension and cogitation are unallied in their ideas.
1852. M. Arnold, Empedocles, II. 359. Still Thought and Mind Will hurry us … Over the unallied unopening Earth.
1862. Spencer, First Princ., II. xiv. § 113 (1875), 323. Year by year are established certain connexions among orders of phenomena that appear unallied.
b. Const. to.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. (1709), 143. ’Tis a Principle … absolutely unallied to Reason and Good-nature.
1789. Cowper, Annus Mem., 59. The eyes that never saw thee, shine With joy not unallied to thine.
1818. Scott, Br. Lamm., xviii. She seemed to be an angel … unallied to the coarser mortals among whom she deigned to dwell for a season.
1864. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., XVI. iii. IV. 280. He … regards with sublime pity, not unallied to contempt, all other diplomatic beings.
2. Having no ally or allies.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), II. iv. 127. Unallied we could make no diversion to France.
1893. Westm. Gaz., 15 April, 5/3. Spain … enters upon the conflict unallied.
