Unruled

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not ruled or governed; ungoverned, disorderly.

c. 1375.  Sc. Leg. Saints, xxx. (Theodera), 107. Certis, vnreulyt ware my wil gyf for þe my-self I suld spil.

a. 1395.  Hylton, Scala Perf., III. i. (W. de W., 1494). For charyte vnruled tourneth somtyme in to vyce.

c. 1425.  Wyntoun, Cron., V. xiii. 4717 (Cott. MS.). Our Lady … repruffit hym fast Off his wnrewllit wilfulnes.

a. 1513.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. 530. Theyse vnrulyd Company gatheryd vnto them great multytude of the commons.

1538.  Starkey, England, II. ii. 180. Man ys then myserabul … when reson ys ouer-run and vnrulyd affectys gouerne and reyne in hys ordur of lyfe.

1596.  Spenser, St. Irel., Wks. (Globe), 617/1. The realme was left, like a shipp in a storme,… unruled, and undirected of any.

1615.  Chapman, Odyss., IV. 925. But their unrul’d acts show their minds’ estate.

1655.  Gentilis, Servita’s Inquis., xxxi. 136. Because the desire of gain is so unruled, that … it doth induce men to commit things against honesty.

1813.  Hogg, Queen’s Wake, Concl. xvii. To end this strife, unruled and vain, Let all the three be called again.

1897.  Westm. Gaz., 29 March, 3/1. The same strong and unruled passions.

  † 2.  Not decided or decreed. Obs.^–1

1456.  Paston Lett., I. 387. The atteynte abidith unreuled til the next terme.

  † 3.  Irregular. Obs.^–1

1551.  Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., I. Defin. They haue no syde equall to an other…, neither keepe they any rate in their corners, and therefore are they counted vnruled formes.

  4.  Not having ruled lines.

1888.  E. M. Gallaudet, Life T. M. Gallaudet, 23. It [a juvenile essay] is written on unruled paper, with a most careful regard for lines and margins, suggesting the use of underlines.

  Hence Unruledly adv. rare.

1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Desreigléement, vnruledly.

1587.  [see UNRULILY adv. 2, quot. 1561].