LekhoriLekhoriNot having feathers.
Ambition is firſt Miniſter of State; / Love's but a ſecond in the Cabinet; / nor can he feather there his unfledg'd Shaft / But from Ambition's VVing: […]
Of a person: not yet fully grown or mature; lacking experience, like a novice or tyro; immature, inexperienced; hence, of or relating to youth.
But do not dull the palme vvith entertaine, / Of euery nevv vnfledg'd courage, […]
Of a thing: not yet fully developed; imperfect, incomplete, unfinished.
Beſides, it is not poſſible to give a young perſon a juſt vievv of life; he muſt have ſtruggled vvith his ovvn paſſions before he can eſtimate the force of the temptation vvhich betrayed his brother into vice. Thoſe vvho are entering life, and those vvho are departing, ſee the vvorld from ſuch very different points of vievv, that they can ſeldom think alike, unleſs the unfledged reaſon of the former never attempted a ſolitary flight.
simple past and past participle of unfledge.
From un- (suffix meaning ‘not’) + fledged (“furnished with feathers or wings”, adjective).
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