adv. [UN-1 11.] In an unseasonable manner; at an unfitting time; out of season.

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1588.  Lambarde, Eiren., IV. xix. 603. It wil fall out unseasonablie.

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1589.  Warner, Alb. Eng., Prose Add. 164. Whilest he vnseasonably amongst blowes, deliuered vnregarded perswasions of Peace.

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1610.  Healey, Theophrastus (1616), 12. A Pratler or Babler … vnseasonably setting vpon any stranger.

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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.

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1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 332. I unhappily and unseasonably disturb’d him.

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1780.  Mirror, No. 72. The thoughts of futurity … may surely sometimes, not unseasonably, press upon our imagination.

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1819.  Shelley, Cenci, IV. iv. 2. Lady, my duty to his Holiness Be my excuse that thus unseasonably I break upon your rest.

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1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 21. Unseasonably cool and … wet weather set in, followed by early frosts.

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