a. (UN-1 7.)
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 29. [An] vnsoldiarly trick of a training captaine.
1644. Prynne & Walker, Fiennes’ Trial, 33. The most absurd, irrational, if not unsoldierly distinction, that ever was heard of in the world.
1693. Rymer, Short View of Tragedy, 134. The General … should … have turn’d his Eyes away from so unsouldierly an Execution.
1721. De Foe, Mem. Cavalier (1840), 299. Avoiding,… the putting any unsoldierly extremities upon us.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea, II. 356. This movement … was scarcely wrong or unsoldierly.
1895. Eclectic Mag., March, 294. The unsoldierly appearance of a dandified subaltern.
