ppl. a. (UN-1 8. Cf. G. undisciplinirt, Sw. odisciplinerad.]
1. Not subjected to discipline; untrained.
1382. Wyclif, Wisd. xvii. 1. For these the vndisciplyned soulis erreden. Ibid., Ecclus. v. 14. Lest thou be take in an vndisciplined wrd, and thou be confoundid.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., VI. v. 1. Like this wyld man, being vndisciplynd.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., Epit. (1612), 357. The Warr-intricated Romaines vtterly left Britaine to the vndisciplind Britons.
1665. J. Spencer, Vulg. Proph., 46. Their undisciplin’d mind is unable to disabuse it self by an appeal to some sober and enduring principles.
1736. Berkeley, Disc., Wks. 1871, III. 415. The savage state of undisciplined men, whose minds are nurtured to no doctrine.
1796. Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, 137. She was quick to mark The good and evil thing, in human love Undisciplined.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., I. 19. The passions of the people were then nearly as undisciplined.
1892. Westcott, Gospel of Life, 285. The fancies of undisciplined enthusiasm.
2. spec. Not properly subjected or submissive to military discipline.
1718. Prior, Solomon, II. 728. Loose and undisciplin’d the Soldier lay.
1792. Gouv. Morris, in Sparks, Life & Writ. (1832), II. 177. The French troops are extremely undisciplined.
1846. H. W. Torrens, Rem. Milit. Hist., 240. The army … as yet wholly undisciplined by those to whom … new and unwonted authority had been delegated.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, i. 37. The discipline which he enforced on the most undisciplined of his army.
Hence Undisciplinedness.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script., 55. Generous Horses, [acting] … not out of Undisciplinednesse, but purely out of Metall.
1888. Abp. Benson, in Life (1899), II. 209. The undisciplinedness of the spirit which despised ‘the day of small things’
