ppl. a. and a. [UN-1 8, 9.]
1. Uneducated, untaught.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. xiv. § 2. They were … poore, simple, vnschooled altogether and vnlettered men.
1615. Sylvester, Job Triumphant, Proem 54. Mine un-schooled and unskilfull Muse.
1762. Falconer, Shipwr., I. 184. In art unschool’d, each veteran rule he prized.
1865. Grote, Plato, I. vi. 222. He especially warns Dionysius against talking about these matters to unschooled men.
1873. Blackie, Lett. to Wife (1909), 222. The vulgar unschooled mind.
b. spec. Not educated at school; not made to attend school. Also absol.
1841. Emerson, Ess., History, ad fin. The Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer’s boy.
1847. Eng. Rev., No. 11. 18. There were only 21,609 children unschooled.
1898. Daily News, 14 Oct., 4/7. It is the unschooled that make the gaolbirds.
2. Untrained, undisciplined.
1589. Nashe, Anat. Absurditie, Ep. From such entercourse of excuse, let my vnschooled indignities conuert them selues to your courtesie.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 97. It shewes … a Minde impatient, An Vnderstanding simple, and vnschool’d.
1811. Miss L. M. Hawkins, C’tess & Gertr., I. 69. Any power, that her … experience might give her over the errors of so unschooled a husband.
1838. Prescott, Ferd. & Is., x. II. 8. A panic-struck mob, unschooled by discipline or experience.
1870. Miss Braddon, Lovels of Arden, iii. 41. A generous and somewhat lofty nature, perhaps, but unschooled and unchastened as yet.
b. Not affected or made artificial by education; natural, spontaneous.
1815. Moore, Epil. to Lady Dacre’s Ina, 43. When lovely Woman, all unschool’d and wild, Blush’d without art.
1873. M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma, iii. 100. The artless, unschooled perception of a child.
1883. R. Bridges, Prometheus, 648. The unschooled promptings of his best desire.
3. Not provided with a school.
1872. M. Collins, Princess Clarice, II. ii. 28. A dingy village, undrained and unschooled.
