Unestablished

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not established or firmly settled.

1646.  Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 227. [A conclusion] clapt up from petitionary foundations and principles unestablished.

1744.  Young, Nt. Th., VI. Pref. This great fundamental truth, unestablish’d, or unawaken’d in the minds of men.

1776.  Mickle, Camoens’ Lusiad, Introd. 154. A work which claims poetical merit, while its reputation is unestablished.

1873.  M. Arnold, Lit. & Dogma, xi. § 3. 346. A notion unestablished, not resting on observation and experience.

  2.  spec. a. Of churches or religious bodies: (see ESTABLISH v. 7).

1885.  Abp. Benson, in Life (1899), II. 496. The difference of court iade no difference to the union even of an established Church, and how can it … do so for an unestablished Church?

1887.  Pall Mall G., 4 Oct., 1/1. Her communion embraces Churches established, unestablished, and disestablished.

  b.  Of employees or employment: Not included in the regular staff or establishment.

1890.  Pall Mall G., 7 July, 5/2. Sanction … to … increase the minimum wage to postmen (including unestablished men).

1894.  Daily News, 15 Sept., 6/3. Within the same time ‘unestablished situations’ … have been given to 1,110 soldiers.