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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not staid or steady; not settled in judgment; volatile; fickle: as, unstaid youth.
Wiktionary
- adj. uncontrolled, unrestrained
Examples
“Next he saith that 'common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.”
“His words may be apprehended as if they disallowed only divorce for 'common discontents in unstaid minds,' having no cause but a 'desire for change;' and then we agree.”
“This fancy-sickness -- for it appears to be nothing else -- naturally renders him somewhat capricious and fantastical, "unstaid and skittish in his motions"; and, but for the exquisite poetry which it inspires him to utter, would rather excite our mirth than enlist our sympathy.”
“These unstaid dimentions, argue unsetled dispositions.”
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex
“Is it mine _unstaid mind_ or Valentine's praise.”
Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
“These unstaid dimensions, argue unsettled dispositions.”
“But, if he take all discontents 'on this side adultery' to be common, that is to say, not difficult to endure, and to affect only 'unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger.”
“common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.”
“unstaid minds,' it might administer just cause to think him the unfittest man that could be to offer at a comment upon Job, as seeming by this to have no more true sense of a good man in his afflictions than those Edomitish friends had, of whom Job complains, and against whom God testifies his anger.”
“In fact is there greater folly than for reason to seek help from anger? the steadfast from the unstaid, the trusty from the untrustworthy, the healthy from the sick? ”
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