unlectured en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + lectured.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Of a person: not instructed by lectures.
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, […]
1827, Hannah More, Sacred Dramas: The Search After Happiness: and Other Poems:The average marks of group N (the unlectured) for the first and second slide were 17½ and 31 (medians 15 and 29) […]
2013, Charles Fox, Educational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods, page 63:
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(archaic, not-comparable) Of a subject or topic: not taught.
Lorenzo, hast thou ever weigh'd a sigh, Or studied the philosophy of tears? (A science yet unlectured in our schools :) […]
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 […], and sold by M[ary] Cooper […], →OCLC: