unaˈpplied, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
Not applied, in various senses.
| 1540 R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. i. i. 1 Quintilian in his boke, where he doth instruct and teache an oratour, wylleth his begynnyng and entrance to be taken from the cradel, and no tyme to be slacked vnaplied towarde thende and purpose of the facultee entended. 1605 Bacon Adv. Learn ii. xxi. §5 Because they were men dedicated to a private, free, unapplied course of life. 1681 J. Flavel Meth. Grace i. 2 Never was any wound healed by a prepared, but unapplied plaister. 1751 Warburton Pope's Wks. IV. 28 note, While a character is unapplied, all the various parts of it will be considered together. 1785 J. Phillips Treat. Inland Nav. 39 The money would lie useless and unapplied a great part of the time. 1832 Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxv. (ed. 3) 388 We may remark that the sea itself offers a perennial source of power hitherto almost unapplied. 1889 S. Walpole Ld. J. Russell I. 272 The remedies which Lord John had desired to provide were still unapplied. |