1. Unbecoming, improper; bad.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., viii. 31. For-thi on molde y waxe mot, that y sawes have seid un-sete. Ibid., xv. 49. Gabbes, les, ant luthere lore, sunnes bueth un-sete.
c. 1325. Body & Soul, in Map’s Poems (Camden), 342. A! thou foule flesch, unseete, Ful of falsnesse.
2. Unpleasant; painful.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., iv. 23. That i telle a povre play, that furst is feir ant seththe un-sete.
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 1238. His bon brast vnder skinne, His sorwe was vnsete.
3. Unwholesome. (Cf. UNSETY a.)
4. in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LXXXI. 319. Þe watures bitter and vnseete were ymad boþe gode and swete.
1387. Trevisa, Higden, IV. 11. His frendes trowede þat unsete mete þat he hadde i-ete at soper was cause of his siknesse.
4. Of persons: Ill-disposed; dissatisfied or discontented.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., xii. 43. This mon that Matheu ȝef A peny that wes so bref; this frely folk unsete, ȝet he ȝyrnden more.
