ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1588. Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 17. Alter his vndressed, vnpolished, vneducated fashion.
a. 1676. M. Hale, Prov. for Poor, Pref. The multitude of Poor, and necessitous, and uneducated persons.
1780. Mirror, No. 106. His mind was as empty and uneducated as that of Drexelius.
1847. Prescott, Peru (1850), II. 348. His uneducated mind had no relish for intellectual recreation.
1879. B. Taylor, Stud. Germ. Lit., 87. He was wholly uneducated, could not read and write.
Hence Uneducatedness.
1825. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Indic. (1830), 59. Uneducatedness operating in extenuation of moral guilt.