Unseasoned

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8.]

  1.  Not made palatable by seasoning.

1582.  Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 108. Caucasus haggish Bred the, with a tigers soure milck vnseasoned.

1601.  Song of Mary, D j b. If it may be, let this vnseasoned cup Of sorrow passe.

1611.  Florio, Incondite uiuande, vnseasoned meates.

  b.  Not appreciative of dainties.

1598.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, 169. For whose vnseasoned palate I wrote the first Satyre, in some places too obscure.

  2.  Not matured by growth or time. Also in fig. context.

1601.  B. Jonson, Poetaster, V. iii. We haue no vacant eare, now, to receiue The vnseason’d fruits of his officious tongue.

1641.  Best, Farm. Bks. (Surtees), 32. The best stricles … are made of froughy, unseasoned oake.

1683.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., Printing, iii. If they be made of unseason’d Stuff,… as the Stuff dries it shrinks.

1832.  Planting, 74 (L.U.K.). Comparative trials of seasoned and unseasoned wood in the same building.

1833.  Loudon, Encycl. Archit., § 243. Unseasoned timber, or other materials.

  b.  Not habituated by time or experience.

1601.  Shaks., All’s Well, I. i. 80. ’Tis an vnseason’d Courtier, good my Lord, Aduise him.

1608.  Day, Law Trickes, III. ii. These words … Are but like Ignes Fatui, to delude Greene and vnseason’d wits.

1614.  Latham, Falconry, I. ix. 33. These hawkes being vnseasoned in their bodies.

1638.  Shirley, Mart. Soldier, I. ii. Your unseason’d valour Had thrice ingag’d our fortunes and our men Beyond recovery.

1730.  2nd Contin. Baker’s Chron., 531/2. The unseason’d Orkney Men immediately yielded themselves.

1770.  Pittman, European Settlem. Mississ., p. viii. The twenty-first regiment … being … unseasoned to such a climate, suffered almost as much.

1840.  E. E. Napier, Scenes & Sports For. Lards, II. App. 243. The exposure of his unseasoned person alternately to night damps and the burning rays of the sun.

1857.  Dickens, Dorrit, I. xxxii. The depressed unseasoned prisoner.

  † 3.  Unseasonable. Obs.

1589.  Cooper, Admon., 21. Their virulent and unseasoned speeches.

1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., III. i. 105. These vnseason’d howres perforce must adde Vnto your Sicknesse. Ibid. (1598), Merry W., II. ii. 174. The which hath something emboldned me to this vnseason’d intrusion.

1615.  Brathwait, Strappado, etc. (1878), 282. Each … tun’d their odes with that vnseasoned time.

1796.  Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, I. 202. Camilla looked hastily away, and her whole set, abashed by so unseasoned an inquiry, cast down their eyes.

  † 4.  Rendered unhealthy. Obs.^–1

1638.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (ed. 2), 213. A great and lovely Citie,… over-topt by no hill, unseasoned by no marishes.