a. (UN-1 7.)
1796. Burney, Mem. Metastasio, II. 316. This essay is sufficient to manifest … the solid, unpedantic cultivation of your happy talents.
1829. Lytton, Devereux, I. iv. He would speak of courts and kings in an easy and unpedantic strain.
1840. Mill, Dissert. & Disc. (1859), II. 41. [The Americans’] cast of mind is altogether unpedantic and practical.
