unfledged

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not having feathers.

   • Ambition is firſt Miniſter of State; / Love's but a ſecond in the Cabinet; / nor can he feather there his unfledg'd Shaft / But from Ambition's VVing: […]
   • This knave, […] shoes horses better than e'er a man betwixt us and Iceland; and so he gives up his practice on the bipeds, the two-legged and unfledged species, called mankind, and betakes him entirely to shoeing of horses.
2. 2

   Of a person

   Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.

   • But do not dull the palme vvith entertaine, / Of euery nevv vnfledg'd courage, […]
   • Temptations haue ſince then been born to's: for / In thoſe vnfledg'd dayes, vvas my VVife a Girle; / Your precious ſelfe had then not croſs'd the eyes / Of my young Play-fellovv.
3. 3

   Of a thing

   Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.

   • Yet they who watch your God-compelled return / May see your happy perihelion burn / Where the calm sun his unfledged planets broods.
   • Alas, poor people, of an unfledged will / Most fitly expressed by such a callow voice!
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   1. 4

      simple past and past participle of unfledge.

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