unˈtilled, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7667 Muche lond þer is As al wast & vntuled [v.rr. vntyled, -teled]. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 451 Heth and vntiled erthe. 1382 Wyclif Ezek. xxxvi. 36, I the Lord haue..plantid vntilied [1388 vntilid] thingus. 1445 in Anglia XXVIII. 277 Londys which were vntilied. 1469 Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 128 Thei byd them lete there land lye on tilled. 1538 Starkey England 12 The erth..els schold haue leyne..rude and vntyllyd. 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Eden 598 There lives the Sea-Oak in a little shell; There growes untill'd the ruddy Cochenel. 1638 Junius Paint. Ancients 245 An unbroken or untilled ground. ? 1674 Traherne Poems Felicity (1910) 86 A Globe of Gold must Barren be, Untill'd & Useless. 1766 Compl. Farmer s.v. Hoeing, The tilled earth receives an advantage from these dews, which the untilled does not. 1819 Shelley England 7 A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. 1874 Stubbs Const. Hist. I. ii. 19 The wide forests and untilled plains are common property. |
| fig. 1592 R. D. Hypnerotomachia 95 Fearing to offend hir..with my rude and vntilled toong. 1651 Jer. Taylor Holy Dying ii. §4 His beastly nature, and desart and untilled manners. 1803 Wordsw. Poems Nat. Indep. i. xx. 6 Men unto whom..minds not stinted or untilled are given. |