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unquartered

unquartered adjective: not divided into quarters.

Adjective

unquartered (not comparable)

  1. Not divided into quarters.
    • An heir may bear his father's arms unquartered, but he is not entitled by the common law of arms to bear his mother's so.1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 337
    • John's father, also John, whose seal was seen somewhere by Streatfeild (in whose MSS. there is a drawing of the seal) used a plain unquartered shield of the Pashley crowned and double-queued lion[…]1961, Archaeologia Cantiana
  2. Not assigned quarters; not given a place to live.
    • unquartered soldiers

Origin of unquartered

From un- + quartered.

Questions about unquartered

What does unquartered mean?
Unquartered means not divided into quarters.
What part of speech is unquartered?
Unquartered is an adjective.

Words near unquartered in the dictionary

  1. unquarreling
  2. unquarrelled
  3. unquarrelling
  4. unquarrelsome
  5. unquarried
  6. unquartered
  7. unquashable
  8. unquashed
  9. unquavering
  10. unquaveringly
  11. unquayed

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