unquartered

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ quartered.

Adjective

unquartered (not comparable)

  1. (chiefly heraldry) Not divided into quarters.
    • 1914, John Horne Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland, page 337:
      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.
    • 1961, Archaeologia Cantiana:
      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