† Unthewed

ppl. a. Obs. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Ill-mannered; unruly, wanton.

c. 1200.  Ormin, 2186. Forr son se maȝȝdenn wurrþeþþ bald, Ȝho wurþeþþ sone unnþæwedd. Ibid., 6371.

c. 1250.  Ten Abuses, 9, in O. E. Misc., 185. Child un-þeaud [v.r. vnþewed].

c. 1325.  Metr. Hom., 112. That ilke childe Was sa unthewed and sa wilde, That alle the schathe that he moht do, He did.

c. 1340.  Richard Rolle of Hampole, Prick of Conscience, 5873. Maysters of þair disciples alswa, Þat þai lete be unthewed, and untaght ga, And chastid þam noght.

1390.  Gower, Conf., I. 144. Thus is schewed What is to ben of Pride unthewed.

  2.  Unrefined, coarse.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 2555. Summe he deden in vn-ðewed swinc,… Muc and fen ut of burȝes beren.