Uncommissioned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not commissioned or authorized.

1659.  Fuller, App. Inj. Innoc. (1840), 618. Commissioned plunder begun with the war, but uncommissioned plunder was before it.

a. 1711.  Ken, Anodynes, Poet. Wks. 1721, III. 460. Whose Voice I labour to suppress; While she my State bemoans, In uncommission’d Sighs and Groans.

1738.  Warburton, Div. Legat., I. 168. A little Priest’s bringing the Mysteries into Etruria, on his own head; uncommissioned by his Superiors.

1802–12.  Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), I. 533. Uncommissioned inspecting judges.

1842.  Pusey, Crisis Eng. Ch., 107. The one holds Ordination to be derived from the Apostles; the other, that Presbyters, uncommissioned, may confer it.

  2.  Of ships: = NON-COMMISSIONED a. 2.

1863.  Lond. Rev., 10 Jan., 7. The order of Earl Russell to detain her at Nassau must have been made under the impression that she would have reached that port uncommissioned.