unchaired

adj

1. (not-comparable)Without a chairperson.

   “Workshops were unchaired. Chairs for the plenary sessions, often with more than 250 participants, were selected at random and votes were not counted.”

   “One of the achievements of RDFRS (US) was to get the original 'Four Horsemen of Atheism' (Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Christopher Hitchens and me, together under one roof (Christopher's) for an unchaired and unscripted filmed conversation.”

   “Culture may affect preferred decision-making styles and expectations concerning group- and team work, the ease or difficulty of working in an unchaired or unsupervised group, the level of deference to an authority/leader, the level of preference for informality, whether the atmosphere is competitive or cooperative, and whether there is a preference for exploring all issues before a decision is sought or alternatively for a sense of urgency and pressure for closure.”

2. (not-comparable)Not having the status and authority represented by a chair (such as a throne, bishopric, or academic chair).

   “Unrobed and unmitred and unchaired, how does this man walk abroad?”

   “Among them were three friends of Hans Freyer: Helmut Berve, the chaired profesor of ancient history; André Jolles, an unchaired professor of Germanic language and culture; and Arnold Gehlen, a young philosopher.”

   “So he was, to be sure, an "unchaired extraordinary professor of physics”, with the status of professor, but with only a very, very small income as assistant.”

3. (not-comparable)Without chairs or having had chairs removed.

   “Ascend we; enter this cold naked room, Unchaired, untabled – dashed with filth and gloom;”

   “But the interior of the Sacré Cœur at Moulins, as I remarked above, is wonderfully minister-like and impressive, and the views across the nave—whose piers, by the way, are gathered up into very harmonious clusters—from the large unchaired space at its western extremity have considerable poetry.”

   “Sleepers are now largely renewed because the fastening wear loose through the perishing of the wood around them, and the fastenings are generally renewed at least once before the sleeper is condemned, particularly on unchaired lines.”

   “Showing the table unchaired.”

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of unchair