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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Unavisitlye, Unadvisitly, adv. Also: unavisitlie, unavysetly, wnawisytly, onavisitly, -ytly, unadvisedlie, -vysedlie, -satlie, unadvis'dly, -wys(s)edlye, -lie, wnwisytly. [ME and e.m.E. vnauyssedly (Rolle), unaduysedly (Caxton), unadvisedly (c1535); Avisitly adv.]

1. Inadvisedly, rashly.(a) 1460 Hay Alex. 2537.
The ȝoung … ar haistie … And oftymes vnavisitlie dois thair deid 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 47.
I say, oppinlie confessit, that scho culd not liue ane gude day, gif scho wer not red of the king; and that not anis, nor unadvisitly, bot in presence of thai personages [etc.] 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 87.
Unaduisitly 1586–7 Reg. Privy C. IV 142.
Thay … hes … raschelie and unadvysatlie, without warrand of the Worde of God … behavit thameselffis 1599 Crim. Trials II 92.
Vnadwysedlie 1600 Elgin Rec. II 80 (see Ras(c)h(e)ly adv.).
Unadvysedlie 1606 Haddington Corr. 117.
Vpoun the occasioune of ane ewill choysine word vnadwyssedlye spokene be one of the heygher hows vntill one of the lower, theme of the lower hows hes challinged the heyer hows with a disgrace 1680 Fugitive Poetry II xxxvi 8/43.
Thou pratts in vaine, Muse unaduis'dly stout 1702 Rothesay Par. Rec. 159.
She replyed that … she had ignorantlie and unadvisedlie given it [sc. the communion ticket] to her daughter Elspeth(b) c1420 Wynt. vii 1659.
In Alnewyk wnwysly [Au., E.² wnawisytly] The kyng … rycht symply Bade(c) 1513 Doug. x vii 151.
Quhil Alesus onavisytly [Ruddim. vnauisitlye, Sm. onavisitly] Cled with hys scheild Imaonus … Hys breist stud nakyt(d) c1475 Wall. xi 231.
A lord off court … Wnwisytly sperd, with outyn prouisioun; ‘Wallace, dar ye go fecht?’

2. Without forewarning, inadvertently. 1588 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 522.
The rest quha come to the said tumult vnavysetly, nocht knawand thairof before hand, and wes na doares thame selffis