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  1.  fig. Not authorized as by the terms of a charter; irregular, lawless.

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1805.  Wordsw., Ode to Duty, 37. Me this unchartered freedom tires.

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1863.  Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., ix. 215. The unchartered wind that ‘bloweth where it listeth.’

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1885.  Athenæum, 25 July, 105/1. Faust … has mistaken unchartered freedom and limitless desires for the true human ideal.

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  2.  Not furnished with a charter; not formally privileged or constituted.

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1818.  Hallam, Mid. Ages (1872), III. 112. The representation of unchartered, or at least unincorporated boroughs.

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1822.  J. Flint, Lett. Amer., 283. At the time when this happened, the people had just become jealous of unchartered banks.

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1901.  Harper’s Mag., CII. 700/1. The Squatters—or unchartered settlers—roamed, at first, rent free.

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