Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not staid or steady; not settled in judgment; volatile; fickle: as, unstaid youth.
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- adjective
uncontrolled ,unrestrained
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Examples
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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.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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Next he saith that 'common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.'
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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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.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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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.
Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England Henry Norman Hudson 1850
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These unstaid dimentions, argue unsetled dispositions.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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'Is it mine _unstaid mind_ or Valentine's praise.'
Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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These unstaid dimensions, argue unsettled dispositions.
The Gentlewomans Companion [Unknown] 1589
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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.
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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'common discontents make these breaches in unstaid minds and men given to change.'
The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864
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'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.
The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859
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