undisˈcharged, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Unpaid; not cleared off or settled.
| 1585 Abp. Sandys Serm. Rom. xiii. 8–13 xi. 181 What should we say but..confesse that wee haue left that debt of loue..vndischarged? 1611 Cotgr., Insolu, vnpayed, vndischarged, vndefrayed. a 1639 Spottiswood Hist. Ch. Scot. (1655) 336 Some private accounts, that rested undischarged at his parting forth of the Countrey. 1723 Lond. Gaz. No. 6183/2 The said four Exchequer Bills (which are all that are now standing out and undischarged). 1800 Misc. Tr. in Asiat. Ann. Reg. 34/2 The arrears have accumulated..and the claims of the government remain undischarged. 1908 Atton & Holland King's Customs 16 The long-standing claims of the Aquitaine mayors were still undischarged. |
2. Not set free or dismissed; not released from office, liability, etc.
| 1603 B. Jonson Sejanus v. iii, Those [cohorts] we must Hold still in readiness and undischarged. a 1671 Ld. Fairfax Mem. (1699) 125 Being yet undischarged of my place, they set my name in way of course to all their papers. 1834 Coleridge Let. in Sotheby's Sale Catalogue 20 Nov. (1899) 17, I know myself an undischarged debtor. 1888 Pall Mall G. 6 Mar. 2/1 He was duly adjudicated a bankrupt;..he paid nothing.., and is at present undischarged. |
3. Not relieved of something.
| 1670 Devout Commun. (1688) 27 An unfixed heart, undischarged of worldly thoughts. |
4. Not accomplished or carried out.
| c 1705 Pope Jan. & May 473 For whate'er work was undischarg'd a-bed, The duteous knight in this fair garden sped. 1881 Atlantic Monthly XLVIII. 380 Fulfilling important..functions which would otherwise go undischarged. |
5. Not fired off.
| 1798 S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. II. 46 Throwing down the remaining pistol undischarged. 1812 J. Henry Camp. agst. Quebec 130 A drunken sailor returned to his gun swearing he would not forsake it while undischarged. |
6. Not unloaded (from a vessel).
| 1864 Williams & Simmonds Engl. Commerc. Corresp. 225 Tincal undischarged from the country steamer at the Ghat. |