ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1596. Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxxii. (1612), 300. To armor vnauthorised should subiects neuer ronne.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxii. § 16. The exercise of vnauthorized iurisdiction.
a. 1637. B. Jonson, Underw., Vis. Muses M. Drayton, 46. A wild and an unauthoris’d wickedness!
1684. T. Goddard, Plato’s Demon, 14. Any private person, who unauthoriz’d by our lawful Government, shall publish … any arguments or discourse [etc.].
1760–1[?]. Gray, Metrum, Wks. 1884, I. 325. [To] insert words and syllables, unauthorized by the oldest manuscripts.
1858. Froude, Hist. Eng., IV. 290. Henry so far listened … as to forbid the sale of unauthorized editions.
1885. J. Martineau, Types Eth. Th., II. II. iii. i. § 1. He was threatened with penalties still unrepealed for unauthorised theological teaching.
Hence Unauthorizedly adv.
1854. Grosart, Spenser’s Wks., III. 29/2. The spelling and grammatical forms, etc., of the later date are made to supplant … the earlier—unauthorisedly.
