1. Not subjected to control; unrestrained, ungoverned, unchecked: a. In predicative use.
1513. More, Hist. Rich. III., Wks. 56. To rule … ye realm at their pleasure, & therbi to pil and spoil whom thei list vncontroled.
1595. Spenser, Col. Clout, 662. Happie … I him hold, That may that blessed presence still enioy, Of fortune and of enuy vncomptrold.
1614. Gorges, Lucan, IV. 147. The coasts on both sides shall behold Valour vn-vanquisht vncontrold.
1655. Nicholas Papers (Camden), II. 311. To suffer so greate a prodigy of baseness to goe vncontrolld, were an injury to humane society.
a. 1718. Prior, Cloe Jealous, x. Fall uncontroll’d my Tears, and free.
1755. Young, Centaur, i. Thus the sluices are set open for all sensuality … to pour in uncontrouled.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, III. 541. The whole of India would fall under the dominion of one Governor, unassisted and uncontrolled.
1890. ‘R. Boldrewood,’ Col. Reformer (1891), 332. Possessing no very near relatives, she was uncontrolled as to her … mode of life.
b. In attributive use.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. (1823), LXXV. ii. Then [will I] denounce my uncontrolled pleasure.
a. 1592. Greene, Selimus, 961. Or have the uncontrolled Christians Unsheath’d their swords to make more war on us?
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., I. i. 2. He withstandeth all effects of sicknesse, with vncontroled constancy.
1660. Gentl. Calling, 46. The Affections … will have as free and uncontrolled a sway in men, as they have in meer animals.
1742. Richardson, Pamela, IV. 56. An Example to all who know him and his uncontrouled Temper.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer., II. (1778), I. 156. They flattered themselves that now they should enjoy an uncontrouled liberty.
1824. Dibdin, Libr. Comp., 745, note. The spleen … broke out with uncontrolled bitterness in … the Third Canto.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 112. The uncontrolled licence and freedom of the democrat.
† 2. Not checked by comparison with facts; untested as to accuracy. Obs.
1529. More, Suppl. Souls, Wks. 297/2. Sith he knoweth hys tale false: it is wisdome to leue the time vnknowen, that hys lye may bee vncontrolled.
1584. in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., V. 81. To make this slaunder more probable, Or at the lest to be the longer uncontrowled.
† 3. Not called in question; not gainsaid or disproved; undisputed. Obs.
1534. More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. Wks. 1223/2. If he perceyued that they sayde but the trouthe, he woulde lette it passe by, vncontrolled.
1591. Troub. Raigne K. John, II. (1611), 86. Faire Lewis of Fraunce … Hath title of an vncontrouled strength To England.
1672–5. Comber, Comp. Temple (1702), 44. The main part of them is genuine, as the uncontrouled Tradition of the Eastern Church assures us.
1724. Swift, Drapier’s Lett., 14 Dec. I ever thought it the most uncontrouled and universally agreed maxim. Ibid. (1731), Lett. to Ventoso, 28 April. It is an uncontrolled truth.
Hence Uncontrolledly adv.
1579. Knewstub, Confut., To Rdr. The sinnes of our Countrey … are done so openly and so vncontrolledly in the sight of the Lord.
1667. Flavel, Saint Indeed (1754), 17. To let thy heart habitually and uncontrouledly wander from God.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 559. Men commonly place it in a license to do uncontrolledly whatever their desires … shall prompt them to.
1855. Doran, Queens of Eng., I. ix. 400. Uncontrolledly exercising the power she had attained.
