Unmanaged

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not controlled or regulated.

1603.  Drayton, Bar. Wars, I. i. A strong nation, whose vnmanag’d might Them from their naturall Soueraigne did diuide.

1646.  Hammond, Tracts, 22. Mounted on an unmanaged or tender-mouth’d horse.

1673.  O. Walker, Educ., ii. 22. Indiscreet, impertinent, unmenaged servants.

1746.  Francis, trans. Hor., Sat., II. ii. II. Pursue the Chace: th’ unmanaged Courser rein.

1848.  T. Aird, Christian Bride, III. vi. The abandoned chariots with unmanaged steeds Roll mad about.

  b.  Of language: Unrestrained, outspoken.

1771.  Burke, Corr. (1844), I. 323. Your lordship’s criminal accusations, so heavy in the matter and unmanaged in the epithets. Ibid. (1791), Th. French Aff., Wks. VII. 63. The Prussian ministers in foreign courts have … talked the most democratick language with regard to France, and in the most unmanaged terms.

  † 2.  Unlabored, uncultivated. Obs.^–1

1634.  W. Wood, New Eng. Prosp. (1865), 52. The folly … of such as would venture into so rude and unmanaged a countrey, without … much provisions.