v. (UN-2 4 b.)
1603. Daniel, Paneg. Congrat., lix. An imperiall lust, that being vnrain’d, Will hardly be resisted any where.
1694. Addison, Eng. Poets, Wks. 1721, I. 41. How negligently graceful he unreins His verse, and writes in loose familiar strains!
1702. De Foe, Reform. Manners, I. 15. Tell us why he … Unreins no Vengeance, lets no Thunders fly, When Villains prosper.
1707. Tickell, Oxford, 273. Codrington and Steele, their verse unrein, And form an easy, unaffected strain.
1851. Bentley’s Misc., Aug., 147. If a soldier’s life … can atone for the sad consequences of unreining an ungovernable temper.
