unˈseasoned, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not made palatable by seasoning.
| 1582 Stanyhurst æneis iv. (Arb.) 108 Caucasus haggish Bred the, with a tigers soure milck vnseasoned. 1601 Song of Mary D j b, If it may be, let this vnseasoned cup Of sorrow passe. 1611 Florio, Incondite uiuande, vnseasoned meates. |
b. Not appreciative of dainties.
| 1598 Marston Sco. Villanie 169 For whose vnseasoned palate I wrote the first Satyre, in some places too obscure. |
2. Not matured by growth or time. Also in fig. context.
| 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster v. iii, We haue no vacant eare, now, to receiue The vnseason'd fruits of his officious tongue. 1641 Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 32 The best stricles..are made of froughy, unseasoned oake. 1683 Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing iii, If they be made of unseason'd Stuff,..as the Stuff dries it shrinks. 1832 Planting 74 (L.U.K.), Comparative trials of seasoned and unseasoned wood in the same building. 1833 Loudon Encycl. Archit. §243 Unseasoned timber, or other materials. |
b. Not habituated by time or experience.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well i. i. 80 'Tis an vnseason'd Courtier, good my Lord, Aduise him. 1608 Day Law Trickes iii. ii, These words..Are but like Ignes Fatui, to delude Greene and vnseason'd wits. 1614 Latham Falconry i. ix. 33 These hawkes being vnseasoned in their bodies. 1638 Shirley Mart. Soldier i. ii, Your unseason'd valour Had thrice ingag'd our fortunes and our men Beyond recovery. 1730 2nd Contin. Baker's Chron. 531/2 The unseason'd Orkney Men immediately yielded themselves. 1770 P. Pittman European Settlem. Mississ. p. viii, The twenty-first regiment..being..unseasoned to such a climate, suffered almost as much. 1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports For. Lands II. App. 243 The exposure of his unseasoned person alternately to night damps and the burning rays of the sun. 1857 Dickens Dorrit i. xxxii, The depressed unseasoned prisoner. |
† 3. Unseasonable. Obs.
| 1589 Cooper Admon. 21 Their virulent and unseasoned speeches. 1597 Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. i. 105 These vnseason'd howres perforce must adde Vnto your Sicknesse. 1598 ― Merry W. ii. ii. 174 The which hath something emboldned me to this vnseason'd intrusion. 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado, etc. (1878) 282 Each..tun'd their odes with that vnseasoned time. 1796 F. Burney Camilla I. 202 Camilla looked hastily away, and her whole set, abashed by so unseasoned an inquiry, cast down their eyes. |
† 4. Rendered unhealthy. Obs.—1
| 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 213 A great and lovely Citie,..over-topt by no hill, unseasoned by no marishes. |