ppl. a. Obs. Forms: (see quots.). [OE. unʓetoʓen (UN-1 8 b), = OHG. ungizogan, unkazogan, etc. (MHG. and G. ungezogen, obs. G. unzogen), MLG. un(ge)togen uneducated, undisciplined, ill-bred, etc., MSw. otughin improper, disreputable, etc. Cf. WANTON a.] Untaught, untrained; unmannered, wanton.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 576. Fisceras and unʓetoʓene menn ʓeceas Drihten him to leorning-cnihtum.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 102. Eni totilde ancre … þet bekeð euer utward ase untowe brid ine cage. Ibid., 372. So tendre of þe bodie þet hit iwurðe untowen.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 245. For alle hit beoð untohene ant rechelese hinen. Ibid., 267. To … leaden him … nawt efter wil, þe untohe lefdi,… ah efter þat wit wule, þat is husebonde.
a. 1310. in Wright, Lyric P., viii. 32. Thah told beon tales untoun in toun.
13[?]. Metr. Hom., in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr., LVII. 252/1. Þis ilke childe was so vntoun and so wylde.
c. 1425. in Anglia, VIII. 145. Wiþ hir vntoune & lacches songes [she] kyndeliþ þe fyre of lecchery.
Hence † Untowe(n)ly adv., wantonly; Untowe(n)ship, wantonness. Obs.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 170. Schomeleas is þe mon oðer þeo wummon þet deð eni untoweschipe, oðer seið, biuoren ancren.
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 22. Ȝef ȝe þenne hondlið ow in ei stude untuliche [v.r. untoheliche].
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in O. E. Hom., I. 247. Nis hare nan þe ne feareð ofte untoheliche ant gulteð ilome.
c. 1450. Cursor M., 10135 (Laud MS.). I rede of hem ye here That may you help in your mystere And leve your vntounship a-while.
