Unquartered
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unquartered is an adjective meaning Not assigned quarters; not given a place to live.
Meaning
Not assigned quarters; not given a place to live.
More Meanings
- (chiefly heraldry) Not divided into quarters.
Example Sentences
unquartered soldiers
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.
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[…]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include triparted, tierced, triangled, compony, quadrifid, undivided.
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