1. Unpleasant, disagreeable; INGRATE a. 1.
1550. Crowley, Inform. & Petit., 469. To passe ouer the days of theyr youth in vngrate seruitude.
1646. R. Baillie, Lett. (Bann. Cl.), II. 364. It’s a marvell to me if these men should allwayes prosper, their wayes are so impious, unjust, ungrate, and every way hatefull.
1656. Artif. Handsom., 46. Impertinent and ungrate must that superstition be.
2. Ungrateful; = INGRATE a. 3. (In later use Sc.)
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VII., 12. Kyng Henry … thought it … necessary … to forgett the vngrate offence agaynst the duke of Briteyne commytted. Ibid., 26 b. So vngrate people were they to their souereigne lorde.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, I. (1577), C vi. To discouer the deceytes of an ungrate woman, who … neuer agreeth hir tong wyth hyr minde.
1606. Marston, Sophonisba, II. ii. But, Carthage, fie! It cannot be ungrate, faithlesse through feare.
1697. G. Keith, 2nd Narr. Proc. Turner’s Hall, 6. Judge … whether they be not a very ungrate People.
1720. A. Petrie, Rules Good Deportm. (1877), 24. It is rude and ungrate to leave a House … without your taking Leave of the Master and Mistress.
1767. Meston, Poems, 196. Ye Muses, who were never yet ungrate, When you your benefactors deed relate.
b. sb. An ungrateful person; an ingrate.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 13944. Þan he … told hym full tyte, þat Telagon he was, His son,… Þat þou gate on þi gamyn, as vngrate felle.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., I. 122. A murthirer, a dum, or vngrate to his parents.
1689. Gt. Bastard, Protector of Little One, 5. It was indeed the true Motive that induc’d this Vngrate to ruin them.
1720–1. Lett. fr. Mist’s Jrnl. (1722), II. 118. The Sweetness of my Lips, which that Ungrate too oft has praised.
