[UN-1 8.] Not brought under government or control; uncontrolled: a. Of disposition, feelings, actions, etc.
1591. Shaks., Two Gentl., IV. i. 45. Some of vs are Gentlemen, Such as the fury of vngouern’d youth Thrust from the company of awfull men.
1622. Misselden, Free Trade, 73. It now remaineth briefely to show the Too Loose Vse thereof, by Vngouerned Trade.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 514. When themselves they vilif’d To serve ungovern’d appetite.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 290, ¶ 1. The ungoverned Passions of such as are enamoured of each other.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xviii. (1787), II. 95. Unable to withstand the ungoverned fury of the populace.
1839. Fr. A. Kemble, Resid. in Georgia (1863), 14. The furious and ungoverned execration which all reference to the possibility … draws down upon those who suggest it.
1846. Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. x. 165. There was … something so violent and ungoverned in her temper and feelings.
b. Of persons, animals, or things.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., IV. iv. 392. Thou…, Vngouern’d youth.
1606. Chapman, Gentl. Usher, IV. iii. For mad men, By paynes ungovernd, have no sense of payne.
1628. in Foster, Eng. Factories India (1909), III. 198. Our people for the most part being heedlesse, ungoverned, without discipline and order.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, I. (Globe), 348. I knew they were a Parcel of refractory, ungovern’d Villains.
1725. Pope, Odyss., VIII. 199. Ill bear the brave a rude ungovern’d tongue.
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XXIII. 585. Thrown … From his seat,… his ungovern’d steeds have roam’d away.
1827. Pollok, Course T., V. 1052. The Tartar hordes, that roamed…, Ungoverned, southward to the wondrous Wall.
