† unˈactively, adv. Obs.
[un-1 11 and 5 b.]
= inactively adv.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. viii. 236 That his time was so peaceably and vnactiuely spent, that it ministred not matter whereof to indite. 1661 Feltham Resolves ii. xlix. 281 He..that is illiterate, and unactively lives hamletted in some untravail'd village. 1693 Locke Educ. §125 Mark how he spends his Time, whether he unactively loiters it away. |