unlectured
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unlectured (not comparable)
- Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
- 1827, Hannah More, Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness: and Other Poems:
- Her eyes the movements of her heart declare,
For what she dares to be, she dares appear;
Unlectured in dissimulation's school,
To smile by precept, and to blush by rule, […]
- 2013, Charles Fox, Educational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods, page 63:
- The average marks of group N (the unlectured) for the first and second slide were 17½ and 31 (medians 15 and 29) […]
- (archaic) Of a subject or topic: not taught.
- 1743, [Edward Young], “Night the Fifth. The Relapse. […]”, in The Complaint. Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality. Night the Fifth, London: […] R[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC:
- Lorenzo, hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh,
Or studied the philosophy of tears?
(A science yet unlectured in our schools :) […]