ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not apprised or informed: a. Const. of.
1728. R. Morris, Ess. Anc. Archit., p. xxii. Those who are unappriz’d of the minuter Proportions.
1798. S. & Ht. Lee, Canterb. T., II. 58. But he, unapprised of the anxious expectation he excited, loitered by the way.
1835. I. Taylor, Spir. Despot., iv. 144. The author must not be supposed … unapprised of the vast controversy of which it has been the subject.
1852. Mundy, Antipodes (1837), 211. Aware that Darlington had been a Probation Station, and unapprised of its abandonment.
b. With dependent clause, or without const.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., V. 539. Some mischievously weep, not unappris’d, Tears, sometimes, aid the conquest of an eye.
1746. Wesley, Princ. Methodist, 49. I suppose, you are not unapprized, That during this Period … they were continually relieved by the Prayers of the Faithful.
1783. Pott, Chirurg. Wks., II. 65. I also am not unapprized what influence a successful operation has had.
1816. P. Hervé, Beauties of Paris, I. 238. Truly mortifying is it to the unapprized visitor to one of the first theatres in Europe, to find [etc.].
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xxxii. (1862), IV. 268. They doubtless were not unapprised that the Spartans had actually equipped an army for the support of Crœsus.
