Unpoised

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.] Unbalanced.

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c. 1600. W. Fowler, Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 260. Vnpoized hambers strikes vntimely howers.

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1739. Thomson, Liberty, II. 150. Oft on the brink Of ruin … Totter’d the rash Democracy; unpois’d.

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1827. Hood, Mids. Fairies, lxi. Languid fish, unpois’d, grow sick and yearn.

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1903. W. H. Hudson, Rousseau, 7. The restless, flighty, unpoised Jean Jacques.

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