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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

unbusied en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + busied.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not required to work; unemployed; not busy.
    • An apothecary sate unbusied at his doore , Whom by his heavy countenance he gessed to be poore. 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):