[UN-1 7. Cf. Du. ontam, OHG. (MHG.) unzam (G. unzahm), MDa. utam, (M)Sw. otam.] Not tame or gentle; wild.
1382. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxx. 8. The vntame hors shal scapen hard.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 287. Whanne al his resoun was untame.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 589. Indomitus, vntame, wylde.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 376. If the vntame brayne of Wyndam had … gyuen eare to the counsayle.
1584. R. Scot, Discov. Witchcr., XII. xv. 204. How untame by nature these vipers … are.
1609. Bp. Hall, David’s Ps. Metaphr., viii. Thou hast … stretcht his raigne Vnto the heards, and beasts vntame.
1655. W. Hammond, Death, 54. The whole world obeys Creation’s law; only untame man strays.
Hence Untameness.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.), Ungentleness, Untameness, Rudeness.
1871. Kingsley, At Last, xvii. In curious contrast to the natural tameness of the Kinkajou was the natural untameness of a beautiful little Night-Monkey.
