ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Not instructed or informed; unenlightened, ignorant. Also const. in, or with clause.
1598. Florio, Inerudito,… vntaught, vninstructed.
1660. Jer. Taylor, Ductor, II. iii. rule 10 § 12. By uninstructed is only meant such who have not heard, or could not learn.
1669. Boyle, Occas. Refl., III. xx. 131. These are utterly uninstructed in the Laws.
1690. Dryden, Don Sebast., III. i. That Fool intrudes,… uninstructed how to stem the tide.
1744. Harris, Three Treat., Wks. (1841), 3. Not even what we do intentionally, if it proceed from mere will and uninstructed instinct.
1785. Reid, Intell. Powers, II. xx. 326. The most uninstructed peasant.
1806. A. Hunter, Culina (ed. 3), 268. Women uninstructed in cookery and the management of a family.
1875. E. White, Life in Christ, V. xxviii. 491. To build a credulous assent … on the authority of the uninstructed multitude.
absol. 1662. Jer. Taylor, Fides Formata (1663), 167. Faith…, if it be not followed,… damns deeper than the Hell of the Infidels and uninstructed.
2. Not furnished with instructions.
1892. Spectator, 21 May, 699/1. Its delegates will enter the Convention ‘uninstructed.’
Hence Uninstructedness.
1833. Montgomery, Lect. Poetry, 333. That perpetual thraldom of uninstructedness (if I may coin such a negative).
1871. Jowett, Plato, I. 170. These base fears and confidences originate in ignorance and uninstructedness.
