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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1513-1617
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Unbridillit, ppl. adj. Also: unbrid(e)lit, -bryd(e)lit, onbridilit, -bridillyt. [ME and e.m.E. vnbrydled (Chaucer), vnbridled (Lydgate); Bridlit ppl. adj.]
1. Of a horse: Not fitted with a bridle.1513 Doug. iv Prol. 117.
Sum hait byrnyng as ane onbridillyt [Sm., Ruddim. vnbridillit] hors
2. fig. Not restrained or held in check. a. With non-material object. b. With personal object.a. 1531 Bell. Boece I 55.
This Durstus … wes gevin to drounknes and unbridelit lust 1533 Bell. Livy II 317 (BM).
Houbeit ȝe haif vnbridlit licence to hed & schurge ws as ȝe pleis 1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 178 (G).
To testifye thair vnbrydlit deformatione, proude pratling, and rakless railling(b) 1549 Complaynte of Scotland 92/27.
Ȝour vyfis and dochteris [shall be] deflorit be the onbridilit lust of ȝour ald enemesb.1549 Complaynte of Scotland 139/16.
For as sune as ȝe that ar comont pepil ar onbridilit and furtht of subiectione, ȝour ignorance, inconstance, ande inciuilite, puleis ȝou to perpetrat intollerabil exactions1549 Ib. 141/1.
Brutal beystis keipis ane bettir ordour in there beystly nature nor dois onbridilit comount pepil 1570 Misc. Bann. C. I 49*.
With the intemperance of ane unbridlit childe c1590 Fowler II 27/3.
Knawing … the King … sic vnbrydelit and debordit brigans dois contem a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 297.
Geve sum unbrydlit men of Johnestons had not hapnit to ryd a steiling in the moneth of Julij
