ppl. a. [UN-1 8.] Not checked or repressed; unrestrained. Also const. by.
1469. in Househ. Ord. (1790), 92. Clerkes at wages certein, unchekked, to have a yeoman and groome’s parte.
1533. More, Apol., xlvii. Wks. 921/1. Yet he they suffred boldely to talke vnchecked.
1577. G. Whetstone, in Gascoigne, Steele Gl., etc. (Arb.), 18. Trueth is the garde, that keepeth men vnchect.
1667. Milton, P. L., VIII. 189. Apte the Mind or Fancie is to roave Uncheckt.
1683. Burnet, trans. More’s Utopia (1753), 114. If they were not strictly restrained from all unchecked Appetites.
1732. Pope, Ess. Man, II. 40. Man’s superior part Uncheck’d may rise, and climb from art to art.
1783. Burke, Rep. Aff. India, Wks. XI. 100. The effects of commercial servitude during its unchecked existence.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, IX. 84. The growing longings of its dawning love, Unchecked by dull and selfish chastity.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, II. 170. The mountaineers … were committing unchecked ravages in retaliation for invaded rights.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lvi. Mankind was to see … unchecked power smitten with fatal impotence.
† b. Of a report: Uncontradicted. Obs.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., I. i. 2. It liues there vncheckt, that Anthonio hath a ship … wrackt on the narrow Seas.
1619. Visct. Doncaster, Lett., in Eng. & Germ. (Camden), 208. There is there an unchecqued report these three or foure dayes that the Count of Mansfelt [etc.].
