ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
† 1. Not duly regulated or moderated. Obs.–1
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 94. Lufe forsoth of kynsmen, if it be vn-manerd, fleschly affeccione it is cald [= called],… and if it be manerd, kyndely it is calde.
2. Of persons: Not possessed of good manners; unmannerly, rude.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., I. ii. 39. Vnmanner’d Dogge, Stand’st thou when I commaund.
1610. Fletcher, Faith. Sheph., II. i. I fear I am too much unmanner’d, far too rude.
1693. Dryden, Juvenal, VI. 543. No Pray’r can bend her, no Excuse appease. Th’ unmanner’d Malefactor is arraign’d.
1745. J. Mason, Self-Knowl., I. ix. He is not only ignorant and unmanner’d, but unsufferably vain.
1824. Scott, St. Ronan’s, xxxi. This awkward, ill-dressed, unmannered dowdy.
1879. Meredith, Egoist, xix. He knew scholars to be an unmannered species.
transf. 1854. S. Dobell, Balder, i. 5. Thou grim wall, Hemming her in with thine unmannered rock.
3. Of conduct: Characterized by want of manners.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 103. He gazed at Louisa with … an unmannered intenseness.
1772. Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773), II. 146. His superior abilities … were never exerted with unmannered insolence.
1836. Lyra Apost., 27. A ready prey, as though in absent mood They calmly move, nor hear the unmannered mirth.
1871. B. Taylor, Faust (1875), II. III. 176. In most unmannered anger ye Have conjured hither pictures of the shapes of dread.
4. Free from artificial manners.
1813. Lamb, Reynolds, Wks. 1908, I. 190. The plain unmannered old Nobility of the … Plays of Shakspeare.
Hence Unmanneredly adv.
1894. Kipling, in My First Bk., 92. All my verses … came without invitation, unmanneredly, in the nature of things.
