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unchecked

English

Alternative forms

  • uncheckt (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?n?t??kt/
  • Rhymes: -?kt
  • Hyphenation: un?checked

Etymology 1

un- +? checked.

Adjective

unchecked (not comparable)

  1. Unrestrained, not held back.
    • 1658, [John Mennes; James Smith], “The Same, to the Same [Mr. Smith, to Captain Mennis]”, in Wit Restor'd in Severall Select Poems Not Formerly Publish't, London: Printed for R. Pollard, N. Brooks, and T[homas] Dring, and are to be sold at the Old Exchange, and in Fleetstreet, OCLC 82393304; republished in Facetiae. Musarum deliciæ: Or, The Muses Recreation. Conteining Severall Pieces of Poetique Wit by Sr. J. M. and Ja: S. 1656. And Wit Restor'd, in Severall Select Poems, Not Formerly Publish't. 1658. Also Wits Recreations, Selected from the Finest Fancies of Moderne Muses. With a Thousand Out-landish Proverbs. Printed from Edition 1640, with All the Wood Engravings, and Improvements of Subsequent Editions. To which are Now Added Memoirs of Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. With a Preface. In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed by T[homas] Davison, Whitefriars; for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1817, OCLC 230583538, page 113:
      O happy captain, that may'st houze / In quarter free, and uncheckt brouze / On teeming hedge, when purse is light, / Or on the wholsom sallat bite: []
    • 1821–1824, John Clare, “The Mores”, lines 1–10; reprinted in Merryn Williams and Raymond Williams, editors, John Clare: Selected Poetry and Prose, London; New York, N.Y.: Methuen Publishing, 1986, ISBN 978-0-416-41120-1, pages 90–91:
      Far spread the moorey ground a level scene / Bespread with rush and one eternal green / That never felt the rage of blundering plough / Through centurys wreathed springs blossoms on its brow / Still meeting plains that stretched them far away / In uncheckt shadows of green brown and grey / Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering scene / Nor fence of ownership crept in between / To hide the prospect of the following eye / Its only bondage was the circling sky []
  2. Not examined for accuracy, efficiency, etc.
  3. (chiefly computing) Of a check box: not checked (ticked or enabled).
  4. (crossword puzzles) Of a square: part of only one entry (that is, across or down, but not both).
Synonyms
  • (unrestrained): uncontrolled
Derived terms
  • (crossword puzzles): unch
Translations

Etymology 2

See uncheck.

Verb

unchecked

  1. simple past tense and past participle of uncheck.

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rampant

English

Alternative forms

  • rampaunt (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English rampand, rampend, present participle of rampen (to rise by climbing, shoot up, sprout, sty, ascend), from Old French ramper (to creep, climb) (see below), equivalent to ramp +? -and or ramp +? -ant. Recorded since 1382, "standing on the hind legs" (as in heraldry), later, "fierce, ravenous" (1387). Compare Scots rampand (rampant).

Alternatively from Middle English *rampant (not found), from Old French rampant, the present participle of ramper (to creep, climb), equivalent to ramp +? -ant. Old French ramper derives from Frankish *ramp?n, *hramp?n (to hook, grapple, climb), from *rampa, *hrampa (hook, claw, talon), from Proto-Germanic *hrempan? (to curve, shrivel, shrink, wrinkle). More at ramp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??æm.p?nt/
  • Rhymes: -æmp?nt

Adjective

rampant (comparative more rampant, superlative most rampant)

  1. (originally) Rearing on both hind legs with the forelegs extended.
    The Vienna riding school displays splendid rampant movement.
  2. (heraldry) Rearing up, especially on its hind leg(s), with a foreleg raised and in profile.
    • 1846, Edgar Allan Poe, The Cask of Amontillado
      ‘I forget your coat of arms.’
      ‘A human foot d’or, in a field azure; the foot crushes a serpent rampant whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.’
    • 1892, Thomas Hardy, The Well-Beloved
      little pieces of moustache on his upper lip, like a pair of minnows rampant
  3. (architecture) Tilted, said of an arch with one side higher than the other, or a vault whose two abutments are located on an inclined plane.
  4. Unrestrained or unchecked, usually in a negative manner.
    • 2013, Phil McNulty, "Man City 4-1 Man Utd", BBC Sport, 22 September 2013:
      In contrast to the despair of his opposite number, it was a day of delight for new City boss Manuel Pellegrini as he watched the rampant Blues make a powerful statement about their Premier League ambitions.
  5. Rife, or occurring widely, frequently or menacingly.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • ramp
  • rampage

Translations

Further reading

  • rampant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • rampant in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • rampant at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • man-trap, mantrap

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /???.p??/

Verb

rampant

  1. present participle of ramper

Adjective

rampant (feminine singular rampante, masculine plural rampants, feminine plural rampantes)

  1. (heraldry) rampant
  2. (architecture) tilted
  3. humbly inclined
  4. (botany) extending over the ground rather than climbing upward
  5. (literature) base; common
  6. (military) stranded on the ground as opposed to flying staff

Further reading

  • “rampant” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Old French

Adjective

rampant m (oblique and nominative feminine singular rampant or rampante)

  1. (heraldry) rampant

Declension

Descendants

  • ? English: rampant
  • French: rampant

Romanian

Etymology

From French rampant.

Adjective

rampant m or n (feminine singular rampant?, masculine plural rampan?i, feminine and neuter plural rampante)

  1. rampant

Declension

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