Ungartered

(ppl.) a. [UN-¹ 8, 9.]

  1.  Not tied with or wearing a garter.

1591.  Shaks., Two Gentl., II. i. 79. When you chidde at Sir Protheus, for going vngarter’d.

1607.  Puritan, II. i. 233. A man that would … go vngarterd, vnbuttend, nay, sir Reuerence, vntrust, to Morning Prayer.

1647.  R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 68. Trebius, oblig’d, has that for which he must Break’s sleep, and run ungarter’d and untrust.

1749.  Fielding, Tom Jones, IV. viii. Catching hold of her ungartered stocking.

1823.  S. Rogers, Italy, I. viii. 50. Gliding on, he comes Slip-shod, ungartered.

1828.  Lytton, Pelham, I. xxiv. Thornton … lounged idly in a chair, with one ungartered leg thrown over the elbow.

  2.  Not invested with the Order of the Garter.

1845.  Disraeli, Sybil, IV. xiv. Ireland was not yet governed by the Duke of Fitz-Aquitaine, and the Earl de Mowbray was still ungartered.