adv. [UN-1 11.] In an unseasonable manner; at an unfitting time; out of season.
1588. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. xix. 603. It wil fall out unseasonablie.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., Prose Add. 164. Whilest he vnseasonably amongst blowes, deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace.
1610. Healey, Theophrastus (1616), 12. A Pratler or Babler vnseasonably setting vpon any stranger.
1687. Wood, Life (O.H.S.), III. 233. That night there should have been an illumination in the quadrangle, but by the folly of the proctor it was unseasonably done the night before.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 332. I unhappily and unseasonably disturbd him.
1780. Mirror, No. 72. The thoughts of futurity may surely sometimes, not unseasonably, press upon our imagination.
1819. Shelley, Cenci, IV. iv. 2. Lady, my duty to his Holiness Be my excuse that thus unseasonably I break upon your rest.
1868. Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 21. Unseasonably cool and wet weather set in, followed by early frosts.