ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not curbed; unchecked, unrestrained.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., I. ii. 243. Therefore with franke and with vncurbed plainnesse, Tell vs the Dolphins minde.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther, Med. 19. True ’tis, the Law of God’s the rule and squire, Whereby to limit Man’s vncurb’d desire.
1660. H. More, Myst. Godl., V. xvii. 207. Their death conducing so much to the uncurbed fruition of all worldly and carnal enjoyments.
1734. trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), I. 120. So licentious and uncurbed a liberty.
1821. Keats, Sonn., On Peace, 13. Give thy kings law—leave not uncurbed the great.
1879. Dixon, Windsor, I. vii. 67. Uncurbed by scruple, she gave orders to employ material force.
2. Free from a curb.
1680. C. Nesse, Church-Hist., 143. Absaloms mule … runs from under him with the reins uncurbed.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VI. iv. But when he saw the mouth Uncurb’d, the unbridled neck, Then his heart leapt.
1825. Longf., Burial of Minnisink, 38. Leading the war-horse of their chief,… Uncurbed, unreined, and riderless.
Hence Uncurbedly adv.
1685. H. More, Illustr., 150. The King of Pride, or Antichrist, reigneth uncurbedly for a time.
