ppl. a. (UN-1 8, 5 b.)
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. V., 42 b. The presumptuous saiynges … of the vnnurtered and vnmanerly byshop.
1567. Golding, Ovid’s Met., V. (1593), 126. These unnurtred damsels overcome began to fall a scolding.
1623. Bingham, Xenophon, 40. He esteemed him that was no circumventer, to be vnnurtured and to want education.
1647. Clarendon, Hist. Reb., VII. § 387. [To] impose upon Men unnurtur’d, and unacquainted with any Knowledge or Science.
1822. Scott, Peveril, xxvii. [I] never saw so unnurtured a cub.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., i. Pale-faced weavers, whose unnurtured souls have been … fluttering forsaken in the twilight.
