Unfashioned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not wrought into form or shape.

1538.  Elyot, Ineffigiatus, vnfacyoned, withoute good proporcyon.

1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. 38. When Moses sheweth that the very vnfashioned lump [of the world] was susteined in him [sc. the Spirit].

1635.  Donne, Elegy, xv. 97. Countlesse multitudes Of formlesse curses, projects unmade up, Abuses yet unfashion’d.

1669.  Sturmy, Mariner’s Mag., b j. Go forth, thou shapeless Embryon of my Brain, Unfashion’d as thou art.

1712.  Spect., No. 554, ¶ 9. Many a good natural Genius is lost, or lies unfashioned, like a Jewel in the Mine.

1764.  Goldsm., Trav., 330. I see the lords of human kind pass by…, By forms unfashion’d, fresh from Nature’s hand.

1848.  T. Aird, Winter Day, Evening, 24. A cloudy confluence of unfashioned light.

  † 2.  Not refined or polished; not made elegant or fashionable: a. Of persons. Obs.

1606.  Daniel, Queen’s Arcadia, 2509. Worthier people too, of subtler spirits, Then these vnfashion’d and vncomb’d rude swaines.

1673.  Dryden, Marr. à la Mode, II. i. An unfashioned untravelled mere Sicilian is a bête.

1711.  Steele, Spect., No. 154, ¶ 2. A sober modest Man was always looked upon by both Sexes as a precise unfashioned Fellow.

1821.  Mar. & R. L. Edgeworth, Mem., I. 75. She was a plump goodnatured unfashioned girl, with little knowledge of any sort and no accomplishments.

  † b.  Of things. Obs.

1630.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Water Cormorant, Wks. III. 6/2. That Muld-Sack for his most vnfashion’d fashions Is the fit patterne of their transformations.

1670.  Dryden, 1st Pt. Conq. Granada, III. i. There’s something roughly noble there, Which, in unfashion’d Nature, looks Divine.

1695.  J. Edwards, Perfect. Script., 436. Illiterate, blunt, unfashion’d language.