[UN-1 11. Cf. prec., and ON. úmátaliga, OHG. unmâzlîche (MHG. unmǽzlîche).]

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  † 1.  Immoderately, excessively. Obs.–1

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 27763. O suernes cums care to strang And þat vnmetele lastand lang.

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  2.  Unfitly, unbecomingly.

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1596.  Spenser, F. Q., VI. vi. 16. A faire Mayden … Vpon a mangy iade vnmeetely set.

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1611.  Cotgr., Induëment,… vnmeetly, vnfitly.

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1826.  Scott, Woodst., xxviii. A benevolent smile … accorded not unmeetly with his glistening eyes.

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1854.  Neale, Seatonian Poems, 108. Tell, nor unrashly nor unmeetly, how God came from Teman.

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