[UN-2 3. Cf. INQUIET v.] trans. To disturb the quiet of; to disquiet.
Common c. 1525–c. 1625; also occurring in recent use.
1382. Wyclif, Acts xv. 19. For which thing I deme hem … for to be not vnquyetid, or disesid.
1407. Exam. Wm. of Thorpe (MS. Rawl. C. 208), fol. 21. My conscience schulde euer be herwiþ ouer mesure vnquyetid.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 15 b. These irefull thoughtes … neuer ceaseth to vnquiet and trouble the same.
1540. Act 32 Hen. VIII., c. 38 § 1. The usurped power of the Bishop of Rome, hathe … unquietid … the subjectis of the same.
1576. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent, 322. They gaue him both othes and hostages to depart the Realme, and neuer after to vnquiet it.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., XII. lxxiii. 304. Thus erring Rome … will our christian World vnqueate.
1648. Gage, West Ind., xii. 80. Who thought it safer sleeping in a whole skinne, then to be unquieted by fighting.
Hence Unquieted ppl. a., Unquieting vbl. sb.
1538. in Lett. Illustrious Ladies (1846), III. 39. I was then half unquieted … all day.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV., 20. To the great displeasure and long vnquieting of kyng Henry and his partakers.
1562. T. Wilson, Rhet. (ed. 2), 72 b. The gentleman … departed with an vnquieted minde.
