unchaˈstised, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 272 A bischop þat consentiþ to oþer mennus synnes schulde raþere be clepid an vnchastised hound þan a bischop. 1388 ― Ecclus. xxx. 8 An hors vntemyd, ether vnchastisid, schal ascape hard, and a sone vnchastisid schal ascape heedi. a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold Bk. M. Aurel. xlviii. (1535) 94, I neuer lefte ylnesse vnchastysed, nor goodnesse without rewarde. a 1547 Surrey Paraphr. Eccles. iv. 2 Wks. (1815) 73 When I bethought me well, under the restless Sun By folk of power what cruel works unchastised were done. 1688 Shadwell Sqr. Alsatia iii, Do you think you shall dishonour this family and debauch my sister, unchastiz'd? 1711 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 123 The rebells..must not goe unchastized. 1779 Cowper Olney Hymns xxxvii, Oh! hadst thou left me unchastiz'd, Thy precept I had still despis'd. a 1814 Intrigues of a Day iii. i, in New Brit. Theatre I. 116, I think it my duty, as a member of society, not to let it pass unchastised. |