unˈfoughten, ppl. a. Now arch.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. and Du. ongevochten, MHG. ungevohten (without fighting).]
= prec.
| 1475 Bk. Noblesse (Roxb.) 47 Youre gret adversarie of Fraunce..fled and voided unfoughten at the said jorney of Senlis. c 1500 Three Kings Sons 89 In-asmoche as we haue ben so long vnfoughten with. ? 15.. Battle of Otterburn xli. in Child Ball. III. 297 If that I weynde..onfowghten awaye, He wolde me call but a kowarde knyght. a 1575 tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden No. 29) 140 He had sufferyd them..to passe by him unfoughten withal. 1811 Scott Don Roderick iii. viii, But thou—unfoughten wilt thou yield to Fate? 1867 Morris Jason ix. 369 Soothly, have we no will to fight with thee lf we may pass unfoughten. |