Uncompelled

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1470–1.  Rolls of Parlt., VI. 233/1. The other pety Capytaynes affermed to be trewe at their Dethes, uncompelled, unstured or undesired soo to doo.

1548.  Patten, Exped. Scotl., O j b. Thear wear but fewe of Lordes … and gentlemen in the feld, but … did thearin right willyngly & vncompeld their partes.

1549.  Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 Tim. 4 b. They … runne vncompelled, and doe more than al the whole law requireth.

1621.  G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., I. 3. The Golden Age was first; which vncompeld, And without rule, in Faith and Truth exceld.

1648.  Boyle, Seraph. Love, xxv. (1700), 152. The amorous Needle, once joyn’d unto the Load-stone, would never uncompell’d forsake the inchanting Mineral.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., II. 420. But … swear To keep my voyage from the royal ear, Nor uncompelled the dang’rous truth betray.

1816.  Byron, Childe Harold, III. xii. Still uncompell’d, He would not yield dominion of his mind.

1856.  Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, IV. 544. Of course the people came in uncompelled.