unˈgowned, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. ix. §59 To whose importunity the proud Legate would not condiscend, vnlesse all the Bishops.., vngowned and vnshod, should humbly craue absolution. 1721 Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 50. 267 Sure of being mobb'd and insulted by whole crowds of the gown'd and ungown'd rabble. 1827 Pollok Course T. viii. 69 Ungowned, unbeneficed, Uncorpulent. |