sb. and a. [UN-1 12, 7, and 5 b.] a. sb. One who is not an adept. b. adj. Not adept or proficient. Also absol.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 649. I’ll point out to thee Its various lessons; some that may surprise An un-adept in mysteries of Night.
1817. Keatinge, Trav., I. 42. The unadept in the valuable science of botany.
1818. Mrs. Shelley, Frankenst., ii. Thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories.
1830. Bentham, Offic. Apt. Maximized, Public Account Keeping, 10. To an unadept mind, what other idea than this is it in the nature of this appellation to suggest?
