unchaired

Adjective

unchaired (not comparable)

1. Without a chairperson.
   • Workshops were unchaired. Chairs for the plenary sessions, often with more than 250 participants, were selected at random and votes were not counted.2008, John Campbell McMillian, Paul Buhle, New Left Revisited, page 171
   • 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.2016, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, page 7
2. Not having the status and authority represented by a chair (such as a throne, bishopric, or academic chair).
   • Unrobed and unmitred and unchaired, how does this man walk abroad?1895, Joseph Parker, The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture, page 246
   • 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.1987, Jerry Z. Muller, The Other God that Failed, page 230
3. Without chairs or having had chairs removed.
   • Ascend we; enter this cold naked room, Unchaired, untabled – dashed with filth and gloom;1850, Alexander Macansh, The Social Curse; Or, Intemperance, a Rhyme, page 27
   • 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.1905, Thomas Francis Bumpus, Summer Holidays Among the Glories of Northern France, page 206