1. Of persons: Not neat in dress or appearance.
a. 1641. Bp. Mountagu, Acts & Mon. (1642), 247. The cited to appeare in Court, came in humble manner,… attired in black, uncompt, undrest.
1647. N. Bacon, Disc. Govt. Eng., I. xli. 104. Nor was this the originall trick of the rude and uncompt Germans, or Barbarous Britons, but of the wise Greeks.
2. Of style: Incompt, inelegant, unpolished.
1633. Prynne, Histriomastix, 925. Whenever I fell to read the Prophets after I had beene reading Tully and Plautus,… their uncompt stile became irkesome to me.
