unchaired

English

Adjective

unchaired (not comparable)

1. Without a chairperson.
   • 2008, John Campbell McMillian, Paul Buhle, New Left Revisited, page 171:

     Workshops were unchaired. Chairs for the plenary sessions, often with more than 250 participants, were selected at random and votes were not counted.

   • 2016, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, page 7:

     One of the achievements of RDFRS (US) was to get the original 'Four Horsemen of Atheism' (Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and me, together under one roof (Christopher's) for an unchaired and unscripted filmed conversation.

   • 2017, Maureen Guirdham, Oliver Guirdham, Communicating Across Cultures at Work, page 120:

     Culture may affect preferred decision-making styles and expectations concerning group- and team work, the ease or difficulty of working in an unchaired or unsupervised group, the level of deference to an authority/leader, the level of preference for informality, whether the atmosphere is competitive or cooperative, and whether there is a preference for exploring all issues before a decision is sought or alternatively for a sense of urgency and pressure for closure.

2. Not having the status and authority represented by a chair (such as a throne, bishopric, or academic chair).
   • 1895, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, page 246:

     Unrobed and unmitred and unchaired, how does this man walk abroad?

   • 1987, Jerry Z. Muller, The Other God that Failed, page 230:

     Among them were three friends of Hans Freyer: Helmut Berve, the chaired profesor of ancient history; André Jolles, an unchaired professor of Germanic language and culture; and Arnold Gehlen, a young philosopher.

   • 2016, Eckart Menzler-Trott, Logic's Lost Genius, page 107:

     So he was, to be sure, an "unchaired extraordinary professor of physics”, with the status of professor, but with only a very, very small income as assistant.

3. Without chairs or having had chairs removed.
   • 1850, Alexander Macansh, The Social Curse; Or, Intemperance, a Rhyme, page 27:

     Ascend we; enter this cold naked room, Unchaired, untabled – dashed with filth and gloom;

   • 1905, Thomas Francis Bumpus, Summer Holidays Among the Glories of Northern France, page 206:

     But the interior of the Sacré Cœur at Moulins, as I remarked above, is wonderfully minister-like and impressive, and the views across the nave—whose piers, by the way, are gathered up into very harmonious clusters—from the large unchaired space at its western extremity have considerable poetry.

   • 1906 October, “The Lakhovsky Screw-Bolt for Fastening Chairs or Rails”, in The Railway Engineer, volume 27, page 329:

     Sleepers are now largely renewed because the fastening wear loose through the perishing of the wood around them, and the fastenings are generally renewed at least once before the sleeper is condemned, particularly on unchaired lines.

   • 1911 July, “Discoveries”, in Good Housekeeping, volume 53, page 135:

     Showing the table unchaired.

Verb

unchaired

1. simple past and past participle of unchair