ppl. a. [UN-1 8. Cf. Da. uveiet, Sw. ovägd.]

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  1.  Not weighed.

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1481–90.  Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.), 348. lix. bales of Gene wode unweyed.

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1535.  Coverdale, 1 Kings vii. 47. Salomon let all the apparell be vnweyed [1539 vnwayed, 1611 vnweighed] because the metall was so moch.

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1555.  Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees), 153. xlv sowes of leade unwaied.

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1697.  Walsh, Life Virgil, ¶ 17, in Dryden’s Virgil. Massy Plate, unweigh’d to a great value.

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  transf.  1852.  Bailey, Festus (ed. 5), 171. Such we hold Thy sanctity of nature, and unweighed Largess of light.

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  2.  Not deliberately considered; not pondered before utterance or expression; hasty, inconsiderate.

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a. 1586.  Sidney, Arcadia, II. xxii. Disgraced with wandring eyes, and unwaied speeches.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., II. i. 23. What an vnwaied Behauiour hath this Flemish drunkard pickt … out of my conuersation!

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1697.  Collier, Ess. Mor. Subj., I. 111. If an Emperour throws out an unweigh’d Sentence, must we be governed by it?

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., I. 84. Daughter! what words have pass’d thy lips unweigh’d?

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1828–32.  Webster, s.v., To leave arguments or testimony unweighed.

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1850.  J. F. Cooper, Ways of Hour, II. 241. Much unmerited misery is … entailed by such unweighed assertions and opinions.

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