ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Uneducated, untaught; simple, unsophisticated; † rude, boorish: a. Of persons.
1593. Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., V. v. 32. Vntutor’d Lad, thou art too malapert.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, II. ii. Babylon, 262. Un-toyld, un-tutord,… We learn’d a language all men understood.
1618. Fletcher, Loyal Subj., IV. iii. We are two simple maids, untutor’d here Sir.
1663. J. Spencer, Prodigies, 15. Those Secretaries of Nature … fell under the hatred of the untutor’d rabble.
1725. Pope, Odyss., I. 491. What God to your untutor’d youth affords This headlong torrent of amazing words?
1780. Bentham, Princ. Legisl., xviii. § 17, note. It is not for this that the untutored many could have originally submitted themselves to the dominion of the few.
1809–14. Wordsw., Excurs., V. 840. The untutored bird may … so construct … her nest … That the thorns wound her not.
1858. Merivale, Rom. Emp., lii. VI. 66. [These] women … were exceptions to the mass of the untutored matrons of Rome.
1878. H. S. Palmer, Sinai, iv. 75. The superstitious and untutored inhabitants of the Desert.
b. Of the mind, intellect, etc.
1597. Pilgr. to Parnassus, I. 9. Urge mee to advise youre younge untutord thoughts.
1619. A. Newman, Pleas. Vis. (1840), 7. Vaine will vntam’d, vntutored, Left Reasons rule.
1693. Prior, To Dr. Sherlock, 29. Thy even Thoughts with so much Plainness flow; Their Sense untutor’d Infancy may know.
1732. Pope, Ess. Man, I. 99. The poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
1784. Cowper, Task, II. 570. A relaxation of religion’s hold Upon the roving and untutor’d heart Soon follows.
1837. Disraeli, Venetia, III. vii. Her unsophisticated and untutored spirit.
1867. Pearson, Hist. Eng., I. 15. Their wants were still undeveloped, their taste untutored.
c. Of instruments (esp. pen or pencil).
1611. Rich, Honest. Age (Percy Soc.), 7. I come not to implore a Lawrell Crowne, Wherewith to decke my rude untutred quill.
1623. J. Taylor (Water P.), Discov. by Sea, C 2 b. What my vntutor’d Pen cannot sufficiently commend, I am forced with silence to ouerpasse.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), A 6 b. This rough Draught of my untutor’d Pencil.
1748. Anson’s Voy., III. viii. 380. Of so little consequence are the most destructive arms in untutored and unpractised hands.
1865. Parkman, Champlain, iv. (1875), 240. A scene oddly portrayed by the untutored pencil of Champlain.
d. Of places or conditions.
1751. W. Whitehead, Hymn to Nymph, 312. Ev’n then, the scene We now behold to such perfection wrought, Charm’d with untutor’d wildness.
1760. W. Smith, Disc. Public Occas. (1762), 119. The Propagation of Christ’s religion through the untutored parts of the earth.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, V. 204. The children of untutored nature.
1809. Wordsw., Poems Nat. Indep. & Liberty, II. xiii. Is it among rude, untutored Dales … only, that the heart is true?
1887. Cornh. Mag., Jan., 39. A camping-out expedition in the untutored woodlands.
2. Not produced or formed as the result of education or training; not improved by instruction.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., Ded. The worth of my vntutord Lines.
1644. Milton, Educ., 2. Besides the ill habit which they get of wretched barbarizing … with their untutor’d Anglicisms.
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 422. The gracious Power Who first awakened my untutored song.
1768. Boswell, Corsica, iii. (ed. 2), 196. Those heroes whose untutored patriotism had shone with such lustre.
1788. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xliv. IV. 334. The laws of marriage, the authority of parents,… are ascribed to the untutored wisdom of Romulus.
1810. Crabbe, Borough, I. 122. We prune our hedges, prime our slender trees, And nothing looks untutor’d and at ease.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, v. 61. The rough untutored vocal expression of worship offered by a whole congregation.
1873. Symonds, Grk. Poets, viii. 251. The peculiar glories of his [Aristophanes’] style are its untutored beauties, the improvised perfection and unerring exactitude of natural expression, for which it is unparalleled by that of any other Greek poet.
3. Not subject to a tutor or tutors.
1641. Milton, Reform., II. 72. Where under a free, and untutor’d Monarch, the … most prudent men … have in their power the supreame … determination of highest Affaires.
