Untamed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8. Cf. ON. útamdr, Sw. otamd, Norw. utamd; also OHG. ungizamot, MHG. ungezamt, and UNTEMED ppl. a.] Not tamed (in various senses); wild; unsubdued.

  (a)  a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xxiv. 11. He leris … sothfastnes thurgh þe whilke he is vntamed.

1382.  Wyclif, Jer. xxxi. 18. Y am lerned as a ȝungling vntamed.

1495.  Glanvil, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. lxviii. 831. Suche asses be grete … and vntamyd.

1535.  Coverdale, Ecclus. xxx. 8. An vntamed horse wylbe harde.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., V. i. 2. Bacchus, that with furious might All th’ East, before vntam’d, did ouerronne.

1623.  Bingham, Xenophon, p. ii. Of vntamed beasts, the most were wilde Asses.

1659.  Chamberlayne, Pharon., IV. iii. 248. Base Amarus,… more beastly rude Than untamed Indians.

1718.  Prior, Solomon, I. 199. Untam’d and fierce the Tiger still remains.

1763.  Falconer, Shipwr., II. 518. Like some strong watch-tower nodding o’er the deep,… Untamed he stood.

1817.  Moore, Lalla R., Veiled Prophet, III. 226. He … there, untam’d, the approaching conq’ror waits.

1868.  Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869), 254. A door for the inroads of untamed swine.

  (b)  1585.  Abp. Sandys, Serm., xii. 205. Which thing rightly … weied, would bridle these vntamed affections of ours.

1600.  1st Pt. Sir J. Oldcastle, V. viii. 8. There dwell vntamed thoughts that hardly stoupe To such abasement.

1653.  W. Ramesey, Astrol. Restored, To Rdr. 11. His wilde untamed accustomary life.

1746.  Francis, trans. Horace, Art of Poetry, 177. With untam’d Fury let Medea glow.

1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxvii. (1787), III. 38. Their native fierceness was yet untamed.

1840.  Dickens, Old C. Shop, xlv. Monsters, whose like they almost seemed to be in their wildness and their untamed air.

1859.  F. Mahony, Rel. Father Prout, 385. The human breast … Throbs thus unawed, Untamed and unquiescent.

  (c)  1600.  Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xlix. 539. The perries which are pressed out of wilde peares, and all such as are vnhusbanded, vntamed.

1623.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Discov. by Sea, A 8 b. The windes and seas continued still their course,… vntam’d [seemed] their force.

1743.  Francis, trans. Hor., Odes, IV. xiv. 23. The Winds arise And work the Seas untam’d.

c. 1790.  Coleridge, Death Chatterton, 159. Where Susquehannah pours his untamed stream.

1818.  Milman, Samor, VIII. 130. The strong freedom of thy untam’d locks.

1841.  Carlyle, Heroes, i. (1904), 33. The untamed Forests and dark brute Powers of Nature.

1865.  Parkman, Pioneers of France in New World (1876), p. x. An untamed continent; vast wastes of forest verdure.

  Hence Untamedly adv., Untamedness.

1592.  Lyly, Gallathea, II. v. Curse … the vntamednes of thy affections.

1612.  Ainsworth, Annot. Ps. xl. 2. The untamednesse of the tongue.

1653.  Blithe, Eng. Improver Impr., xxviii. 196. If the horse be kindly used, and taken of his untamedness by degrees,… he is made a horse for ever.

1706.  Stevens, Span. Dict., I. Seneramente,… wildly, untam’dly, outrageously.

1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Wildness, Untamedness, Furiousness.