a. [UN-1 7.] Wanting in courtesy; discourteous: a. Of persons.
α. 1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 6798. Þys ryche man, as þe gospel seys, Was but to o man vncurteys.
a. 1352. Minot, in Pol. Poems (Rolls), I. 79. Unkind he was and uncurtayse.
a. 1400–50. Bk. Curtasye, 128, in Babees Bk. Dip not þi thombe þy drynke into, Þou art uncurtayse yf þou hit do.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, IV. xxiii. 151. Yf syre Pelleas had ben as vncurteis to yow as ye haue ben to hym ye hadde bene a dede knyghte.
1533. More, Apol., ix. Wks. 865/2. Were not a manne … worthye to bee compted vncourteyse, that woulde [etc.].
1548. Elyot, Inclemens,… vngentil: vncurteis.
β. 13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 303. I halde þat iueler lyttel to prayse,… & much to blame & vn-cortoyse.
1530. Palsgr., 328. Uncourtoyse, ingrat.
1552. Huloet, Vncurtoyse, illiberalis.
γ. 1426. Audelay, Poems (Percy Soc.), 14. He is unkynd and uncurtes.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 222. Quhasa did the contrair he war ungentill, uncurtas, and unconnand.
a. 1500[?]. Chester Pl., II. 105. God forbyde that we were So uncurtise to you heare.
1542. Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 264 b. Hymselfe remained prisoner emong the most uncourtise Silicians.
1575. Laneham, Lett., 41. Yoor only prezens shallbe matter sufficient of abandoning this vncurtess knight.
δ. 1535. Coverdale, Bar. iv. 15. An vncurteous people, and of a straunge language.
1551. Recorde, Pathw. Knowl., Pref. If I were as vncurteous as you vnkind, I shuld vtterly refuse to do them any good.
1652. J. Taylor (Water P.), Short Relat. Long Journ. (Spenser Soc.), 23. Then most uncurteous Mistris, quoth I, I doubt I must bee necessitated to take up my lodging in the Field.
1801. Lusignan, II. 49. Strangers, you seem not uncourteous.
1858. Trollope, Dr. Thorne, xxxiii. She was more than ordinarily anxious not to appear uncourteous or unkind to him.
b. Of actions, speech, etc.
c. 1490. Plumpton Corr. (Camden), 71. I besech you speake to my master, that no uncurtes dealing be had with none of his servants.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV., 19. He beyng netteled with these uncurteous ye unvertuous prickes & thornes, serched out the authours.
1594. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., IV. xiii. § 10. They ease us of that vncourteous burden.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., V. i. 369. Vpon some stubborne and vncourteous parts We had conceiu’d against him.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxiv. It would be, therefore, uncourteous to leave my readers under any doubt concerning the agency.
1875. W. S. Hayward, Love agst. World, 11. ‘I know what I am doing,’ was the uncourteous reply.
