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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1609-1649
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Unstayed, Onstai'd, adj. [e.m.E. vnstaid (c1550), vnstayed (1579); Stayed adj.] Unsettled, unstable; uncertain, fickle. —(a) 1618 Calderwood VII 292.
He is a man of a verie weake and unstayed conscience a1649 Drummond Wks. (1711) 55.
Some young Phaeton, Whose skilless and unstayed hand May prove the ruin of the land —(b) 1609 Garden Garden 59.
What is this world, a theater of woe? … An onstai'd stage of state, a strife, a storme
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