Unrestful

a. [UN-¹ 7. App. not in use between 16th and 19th century: cf. RESTFUL a.]

  1.  Restless, stirring, unquiet. (Freq. c. 1875–.)

1382.  Wyclif, Baruch iv. 15. A folc vnsaciable, or vnrestful, and of an other tunge.

c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 104. Þei are … Vnschamful to axe,… vnrestul tul þei tak, vnkynd wan þei han tane.

a. 1420.  Wycliffite Bible, Prov. vii. 13, marg. With wowing cheer; that is, vnresteful, and with out schame.

c. 1475.  Cath. Angl. (A.), 305/1. Vn Restfulle, inquietus.

1533.  More, Debell. Salem, Wks. 961/2. That good peacible folke … should not for suche inquiete & vnrestfull wretches without some ruffle liue in peace long.

1553.  Primer, in Lit. & Doc. Edw. VI. (1844), 474. We are … besieged of cruel and unrestful enemies.

1565.  Abp. Parker, Corr. (Parker Soc.), 237. The talk … is much increased, and unrestful they be, and I alone they say am in fault.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. ix. So wags … this unrestful World, day after day.

1891.  Spectator, 7 March, 340/1. This unrestful and fussy energy.

  † 2.  Disturbed, troubled. Obs.

a. 1395.  Hylton, Scala Perf., II. xxvii. (W. de W., 1494). It bereth downe the thoughte: and makyth it vnrestfull.

1435.  Misyn, Fire of Love, II. vi. 82. Lorde, þou art my takar, þat malicius prikkyngis of my fraward enmys me make not vnrestfull.

  3.  Marked by absence of rest or quiet.

14[?].  Rule Syon Monast., liii., in Collect. Topogr. (1834), I. 31. Suche as gretly rowte or make any unrestful noyse in ther sleppe … schal be purveyd a nother place, wher they may slepe withoute unrestyng of other.

c. 1445.  Pecock, Donet, 94. Þouȝ al þis lijf be … laboriose, vnrestful.

1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 242. The bedde of a persone beeyng in greate debte is an unrestefull thyng.

1548.  Bodrugan, Epit. King’s Title (1873), 254. What properties procedeth of warre, but outragious costes,… consumyng anger, vnrestfull quietness.

1600.  Look About You, i. A 2. If drousie age keepe not thy stiffened ioyntes On thy vnrestfull bed.

1884.  Pall Mall G., 9 Dec., 11/2. There is on every face a craving, unrestful expression.

  Hence Unrestfully adv.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 305/1. Vn Restfully, jnquiete, jnoportune.