ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
Hence, in recent use, untrainedness.
1. Not trained by instruction or experience.
1548. Udall, Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 180 b. Yet these shadowes of thynges visible wer geuen for a tyme to the grosse and vntrained people.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. ii. 73. I am by birth a Shepheards Daughter. My wit vntrayn’d in any kind of Art.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Content, ii. Gad not abroad at ev’ry quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect., 55. I cannot say that I am utterly untrain’d in those rules.
1805. Wordsw., Prelude, X. 197. Men who, to business of the world untrained, Lived in the shade.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xv. The low size, and wild, shaggy, untrained state of the animal.
1834. Newman, Par. Serm. (1837), I. xxii. 325. Nothing is done effectually through untrained human nature.
1864. [see prec.].
1898. Adelaide Louise Samson, in Metropolitan Mag., VI. Jan., 41. Her [Madame Sembrich’s] exquisite voice, beautiful even in its untrainedness won the day.
2. spec. Not trained in military exercises.
1591. Smith, Instr. Military (1595), Ep. Ded. 8. That the people of kingdomes … should bee disarmed, vntrayned, and vnexercised, for feare of reuoltes.
1608. trans. J. de Gheyn’s Exercise of Arms, 1 b. To instruct the vntrained souldiers.
1667. Milton, P. L., XII. 222. For life To noble and ignoble is more sweet Untraind in Armes.
1726. Pope, Odyssey, XIX. 212. Untrained to martial toil I lived inglorious in my native isle.
1770. Glover, Leonidas (ed. 5), VII. 510. The unabating fortitude of Greece Maintains her line, th’ untrain’d Barbarians charge In savage fury.
3. Not trained in figure.
1871. Figure Training, 17. The untrained form of the dairy-maid.
