ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not adapted or suited; unfit.
1592. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. III. IV. 109. I am come upp raggedlie suted and clothed, unfittedst to geve duetiefull attendance on Royall presence.
a. 1625. Fletcher, Hum. Lieut., II. iv. How yet unripe we were, unblown, unharden’d, Unfitted for such fatal ends.
1794. S. Williams, Vermont, 351. Such a code is wholly unfitted to the uncorrupted state of the people.
1809. Kendall, Trav., I. i. 7. A scene, that was not unfitted to leave on the mind a … respectful impression.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, x. 340. Untitled, perhaps, by temperament for the most impassioned lyrics, Tennyson delights in minutely finished pictures.
2. Not provided with something suitable.
1606. Chapman, Gentl. Usher, IV. iv. If it be nothing but the jarre Of your unfitted fancie that procures Your wilfull coynesse.
3. Not fitted up or out; not properly furnished.
1708. Lond. Gaz., No. 4414/3. Some [ships] in the Peer are yet unfitted.
1908. Animal Managem., 269. If for military reasons long journeys have to be made in unfitted trucks.
4. Not adjusted by fitting.
1895. Pall Mall G., 1 Feb., 5/2. Nations that have not arrived at the artificial prettiness of finely-fitted dress had best be content with the natural beauty of unfitted.
Hence Unfittedness.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. v. 94. The Actors were privately to be tried upon the Stage, that upon the insufficiency of the persons, or unfittednesse, the men might be chang’d.
1870. Hales, Longer Eng. Poems, 112. This sense of his unfittedness to perform as yet a poet’s high duties.
