adv. Forms: as prec. + -lie, -ly(e (also 4 unauyssedly, 6 Sc. onavisitly). [f. prec. + -LY2.]
1. Without consideration or reflection; imprudently, injudiciously; thoughtlessly, rashly, inadvisedly.
α. c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 11. Þat þay say to þam na wordes of myssawe … ne of displesance vnauyssedly.
a. 1513. Fabyan, Chron., VII. (1811), 666. Robert Byfelde, one of the shyreffs, vnauysidly knelyd downe nygh vnto the sayd mayer, wherof the mayer after reasonyd hym and layd it to his charge.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, X. vii. 151. Quhill Alesus onavisitly Cled with hys scheyld Imaonus, hym by,… Hys breist stud nakyt.
β. 1474. Caxton, Chesse, III. iv. G 4 b. It cometh of nature often tymes to women to geue counceyl shortly and unaduysedly to thynges that ben in doubte or perilous.
1581. Mulcaster, Positions, xxxvi. (1887), 138. By appointment, either vnaduisedly made, or aduisedly marred.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, viii. 189. If it be immoderately, vntimely, and vnaduisedly vsed, it is no lesse hurtfull then Intemperance.
1657. Trapp, Comm. Job xlii. 4. He would speak no more so rashly, and unadvisedly as he had done, to God’s dishonour.
1709. Tatler, No. 147, ¶ 8. I shall decide nothing unadvisedly in Matters of this Nature.
1765. Blackstone, Comm., I. 187. Charles the first … having unadvisedly passed an act to continue the parliament then in being.
1803. Scott, Lett. to Gifford, Oct., in Lockhart. If a weak brother will unadvisedly put forth his hand to support even the ark of the constitution, I would expose his arguments.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, v. There are ranks and degrees—and those who can serve in the higher must not unadvisedly change what seems to be a providential appointment.
† 2. Without warning: unexpectedly. Obs.
c. 1535. in Strype, Eccl. Mem. (1721), I. App. xlv. 125. Antichrist shal sodenly and unadvisedly come, and … destroy al mankind through his error.
1577. Hanmer, Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663), 175. Petrus, who … suddenly and unadvisedly by the commandment of Maximinus was beheaded.
1699. N. Marsh, in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden), 296. The pretended Mathematician has quite mistaken his measures, and, soaring too high, hath unadvisedly dropt into the pit.
