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  1.  Not bookish or studious; unlearned.

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1604.  Shaks., Oth., IV. i. 102. His vnbookish Ielousie must construe Poore Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behauiours Quite in the wrong.

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1644.  Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 36. It is to be wonder’d how museless and unbookish they were.

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1792.  G. Wakefield, Mem. (1804), II. 135. Alexander, like the unbookish bigots who are molesting me, would take offence at the speculations of his preceptor.

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1863.  N. & Q., 3rd Ser. III. 349. We would submit the following explanation of the unbookish housekeeper’s little bill.

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1882.  Century Mag., XXIII. 951. Even the most unbookish reader will kindle into a momentary sympathy.

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  2.  Free from bookishness.

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1887.  Spect., 19 March, 382. Luther, the most unbookish of men.

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