unnaturall

English

Adjective

unnaturall (comparative more unnaturall, superlative most unnaturall)

1. Obsolete spelling of unnatural.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, Essays, III.12:

     This man speakes of an unnaturall ill-favourdnesse and membrall deformity, but we call ill-favourdnesse a kinde of unseemelinesse at the first sight, which chiefely lodgeth in the face, and by the colour worketh a dislike in us.

   • 1643, John Vicars, Prodigies & Apparitions, or, Englands Warning Piece,‎^[1]:

     […] hath not the Lord used that other more terrible and heart-frighting course […] of Prodigies, Signes and Apparitions in the ayre, and other most degenerating, unnaturall and wonder-striking contingents amongst us here at home?

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Hares”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 120:

     […] and what vices therein it [sc. the hare] figured; that is, not only pusillanimity and timidity from its temper, feneration or usury from its fecundity and superfetation, but from this mixture of sexes, unnaturall venery and degenerous effemination.