unˈscathed, ppl. a.
(un-1 8. Cf. ON. and Icel. {uacu}-, óskaðaðr, MSw. oskadhad, Sw. oskadad.)
Before 19th cent. Sc. and somewhat rare.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (James min.) 608 Þat I and þai..In gud fath sal vnschait be. 1425 Sc. Acts Parlt., Jas. I (1814) II. 11/2 Quhil it be knawin..at þe cuntre be vnscaithit of þaim. 1461 Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 22 That man..sal..kepe the toun vnscathit..of all dettis and chargis acht be hym. 1567–8 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 613 To be unharmit, unskaythit, or unmolestit be ony of the liegis. 1787 Burns Tam Samson's Elegie xvii, Unskaith'd by Death's gleg gullie, Tam Samson's livin! 1827 Lytton Falkland 25, I passed through the ordeal unshrinking, yet not unscathed. a 1862 Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 103 That intellect which had conducted them unscathed through such..dangers. 1882 A. W. Ward Dickens i. 9 Whatever his experiences of this kind may have been, he passed unscathed through them. |