ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not appointed, in various senses.
1560. Pilkington, Expos. Aggeus, I iij. Nay how shall they come together, except place and time be appoynted? How shal they know when and whither to resort, vnappoynted?
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. v. (1912), 377. Else the very griefe & feare would prove her unappointed executioners.
1782. V. Knox, Ess., vi. (1819), I. 34. The operations of this engine of oppression, in the hands of an interested plebeian, unappointed, unauthorised.
1800. Law Rep., 29 Ch. Div. 521. So much thereof as should remain unappointed or undisposed of.
2. Not fitted out with requisites; unequipped.
1579. Gosson, Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 64. Finding them selues vnappointed for the fielde, [they] keepe a farre off.
1759. [see UNANELED ppl. a.].
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., II. V. xi. Troops badly commanded, shall we say? Or troops intrinsically bad? Unappointed, undisciplined, mutinous.
