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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1500-1679
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Undantit, -dantonit, ppl. adj. Also: undantted, -daunted, wndantit, ondantit, -yt, undantonet, -ed, -'d, -dantaned, -dantounit, -o(u)nd, -dauntoned. [Late ME and e.m.E. vndauntid (1422), vndaunted (1547), vndanted (1594); Dantit ppl. adj., Dantoned ppl. adj.]
1. Not broken in, untamed: a. Of horses. Also in fig. context. b. transf. Unbridled, unrestrained.a. 1533 Boece 463b.
I beleif this man without his mouth be cavillit as ane wylde vndantit hors sall neuer to the crowne be obeysant a1568 Scott xxx 11.
Thay rin lyk wyld vndantit hors(b) 1598 James VI Minor Prose 77/4.
The common-wealth at that time resembling an vn-daunted yong horse, that hath casten his rider(c) c1575 Balfour Pract. 554.
Ane undantonit horse, or ane heid-strong horse … castis the riderfig. 1581 Burne Disput. 135.
He vil not be eschamit to cal him self ane vndantonit beast quhilk may not be ouercummit 1653 Binning Wks. (1841) 564.
Do you not all know that ye should bridle your tongues, that it is a great point of that Christian victory over the world to tame and danton that undantoned wild beast?b. 1535 Stewart 3471.
This king he wox rycht vile … Drokkit and dull throw vndantit delyte c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i 341.
Weill I knaw thy vndantit barnage Will haif ane May bot fra it slokinnit be(b) 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 58.
Thyne ondantyt myght Constrenys so sum tyme the stonyt hors That [etc.] 1513 Doug. vi ix 204.
Ondantit(c) 1600 Wodrow's Life of Bruce 94.
I am put from my flock … banished … exponed to the rage of an undantaned element, in the most tempestuous and unseasonable time of the year 1600-1610 Melvill 355.
The moderator … maid open confessioun of … undantoned feritie in perturbationes … folie of speiche [etc.]
c. Disorderly, unruly; fierce, wild.(a) 1500 Reg. Privy S. I 84/2.
[For his service done] … in stabilling of the cuntre quhilkis the personis forsaid, and utheris undantit peple inhabitis 1622-6 Bisset I 31/30.
The peopill that war vyle and undantted abefoir … war than reformed(b) 1513 Doug. ii viii 6.
Sa wod ondantit [Sm. wndantit, Ruddim. vndantit] melle thar we se 1531 Bell. Boece I 13.
The Scottis war ane ondantit pepill; havand rude and wild maneris, but ony humanite(c) 1584 Acts III 299/2.
For repressing of proud and vndantonit braggaris, boistaris and oppressouris 1587 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 510.
Dyuers of the inhabitants … ar shameles and vndantonet bairds 1678 Highland P. II 77.
He was a wild undauntoned person 1679 J. Barclay Descr. Cath. Ch. 48.
There might more rough undanton'd youth be tam'd
2. In fig. context: Not conquered, unvanquished.c1590 Fowler I 146/10.
Your beautye was the first that wan the place And skaild the walls of my vndantond harte
3. Not daunted; intrepid, bold.15.. Clariodus i 70.
Undantounit beine thair nobill heartis hee 1513 Doug. Epil. i 3.
I, Quhilk … in myne ondantit ȝouth, … Of Lundeys Lufe the Remeid dyd translait c1590 Fowler I 119/26.
And yit aganis me [sc. the Sun] dois a mans vndantound fame with stand a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1825) 345.
His mynd was notwithstanding sa undantonit and unmyndfull of his former misdeid … [that] he sent for freynds … upon playne purpose … to invayde the said erle a1658 Durham Scandal (1740) 70.
An holy boldness, and an undantoned fearlesness in respect of men
