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† 1. Not advanced or promoted.
1483. Act 1 Rich. III., c. 2 § 1. Mony worshipfull men … were compelled … to lyff in greate penurie…, their dettes unpaied and their childeryn unpreferred.
1564. Haward, Eutropius, X. 123. He … would not see them vnpreferred to honoures.
1572. Wills & Inv. N. C. (Surtees, 1835), 370. I will yt Alice my wyf & … my doughters being vnmarried & vnpreferred shall haue their full portions of my goods.
1607. Dekker, Northward-Hoe, IV. Wks. 1873, III. 45. A poore vnpreferd scholler.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. vi. § 36. Of which order fourteen only could be found … which were unmarried, unpreferred to cures.
1697. Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. 25. There is no such way to make a Scholar, as to keep him under while he is young, or unpreferred.
2. Not regarded with preference.
1884. Imperial Dict., s.v.
