1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xii. § 6. 105. A man that was vncautious and sucked strongly that had his foreteeth beaten out by the blow of the bullett ascending.
1677. Gilpin, Demonol. (1867), 31. There is no small cunning and working of Satan in them, insomuch that the uncautious and injudicious are deceived.
1710. Palmer, Proverbs, Pref. p. xiv. An uncautious wanton writer can possibly give the vice he has too lusciously describ’d.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. 205. O what has this uncautious man said?
Hence † Uncautiously adv., † Uncautiousness.
1680. H. Dodwell, Two Lett. (1691), 154. Arguments … endangered by the very uncautiousness of the expression.
1721. Waterland, Case Arian-Subscr. Consid., iv. 41 (Plea xiv. § 4). It is very uncautiously and unaccurately said, that King Charles I. patronized the Subscribing the same Articles either in contradictory, or different Senses.
1759. Goldsm., Bee, No. 7. 128. Uncautiously suffering this jealousy to corrode in her breast.
