unbusied
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
unbusied (not comparable)
- Not required to work; unemployed; not busy.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- An apothecary sate unbusied at his doore , Whom by his heavy countenance he gessed to be poore.
References[edit]
“unbusied”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.