ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not qualified or fitted; not having the necessary qualifications.
1556. Lauder, Tractate, 364. Quhow God sall ȝow correct, Geue ȝe vnqualifeit hirds Elect.
1631. Star Chamb. Cases (Camden), 73. Allen, being a Vicar in Sudbury and beneficed and unqualifyed, accepted of another living.
1673. S’ too him Bayes, 22. The bishop would not have unquality’d people read the scriptures.
1780. Harris, Philol. Enq., I. iv. (1781), 27. As Translators are infinite, and many of them (to borrow a phrase from Sportsmen) unqualified Persons.
1836. Jas. Grant, Random Recoll. Ho. Lords, ix. 192. He was always the unqualified denouncer of State prosecutions of the press.
1891. E. Kinglake, Australian at Home, 46. It is no use sueing a quack…. Why did you employ him? You know he is unqualified.
b. Const. for, or to with inf.
1667. Decay Chr. Piety, xix. 409. Till he have thus denudated himself … he is utterly unqualified for these Agones.
1689. S. Johnson, Remarks Sherlock’s Bk., 41. A Person may be unqualified by Law, to execute a Commission.
1736. Butler, Anal., I. v. 113. Capable of naturally becoming qualified for States of life, for which they were once wholly unqualified.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xviii. (1787), II. 109. Dominions which they were unqualified to govern.
1847. Harris, Life Ld. Hardwicke, I. 504. A minister … unqualified for his situation.
2. Not endowed with specific qualities.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 220. If he neither derived them from … unqualified Matter,… nor yet from … an irrational and maleficent soul.
3. Not modified, limited, or restricted.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, I. 76. [He] could scarce refrain from a smile at this unqualified opening.
1857. Prescott, Philip II., I. (1857), 145. His ardour did not precipitate him into any unqualified declaration of his passion.
1878. Bosw. Smith, Carthage, 7. The unsparing and unqualified denunciations of Tyre and Sidon … in Joel and Amos.
