unbusied

English

Etymology

un- +‎ busied

Adjective

unbusied (not comparable)

1. Not required to work; unemployed; not busy.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     An apothecary sate unbusied at his doore , Whom by his heavy countenance he gessed to be poore.

References

“unbusied”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.