ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not meditated on; neglected as a subject of study or thought.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 192. Þus bi þis nouelrie of song is goddis lawe vnstudied & not kepte.
1608[?]. Reynard’s Deliv. fr. Turks, in Harl. Misc. (1744), I. 183. There is … no language, be it never so barbarous, or hard to learn, left unstudied.
1614. in Overbury, A Wife, etc., A 4 b. For that word, ‘A goodly woman,’ Prints it selfe in such a letter That it leaues vnstudied no man.
2. Not having studied; unversed (in something).
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., 15. I … was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended.
1650. Baxter, Saints’ R., I. vii. 104. Men voyd of Learning, and strength of parts, unstudied and untaught.
1685. E. Bohun, Life Jewell, in Apol., 30. That Learned Prelate … was not so unstudied in the nature of Councils, as [etc.].
1817. Coleridge, Lay Serm., 77. The strict, but unstudied and uninquiring, Religionists of every denomination.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, 85. The young stranger … was not unstudied in the great poem of his country.
† b. Not spent in or devoted to study. Obs.–1
1645. Milton, Tetrach., Int. A 3 b. To cloak the defects of their unstudied yeers.
3. Not elaborated by study or care; not labored or artificial.
1657. H. King, Poems, 122. They bring Course and unstudy’d stuffs for offering.
1674. Hickman, Quinquart. Hist. (ed. 2), Ep. A 3. Had I thought so unstudied a scrible meet to be exposed to publick view.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Georg., Ded. A clearness of Notion, express’d in ready and unstudied Words.
1730. Thomson, Winter, 468. With sense refin’d,… Unstudy’d wit, and humour ever gay.
1798. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 57. This scheme was not quite so unstudied as it appeared.
1817. W. Godwin, Mandeville, I. 207. She expressed herself with the greatest ease, her sentiments were unparrotted and unstudied.
1856. N. Brit. Rev., XXVI. 233. He had a homely,—apparently unstudied mode of expression.
1884. Church, Bacon, ix. 220. Easy and unstudied as his writing seems.
