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unˈfed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. MDu. ongevoedet, -voet, Du. -voed unfed, unnourished; ON. and Icel. ú-, ófœ́ddr (Sw. ofödd, Da. ufødt) unborn.]
1. Not supplied or nourished with food.
a1300Cursor M. 12925 Iesus..fasted fourti dais vn-fedd. Ibid. 19650 Thre dais liued he þar vnfedd. 1513Douglas æneid ix. vi. 71 The empty lioun, lang onfed,..Trubland the fald full of sylly schep. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. May 44 Shepeheards..That playen, while their flockes be vn⁓fedde. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 123 Carre-swannes, that are unfedde, are usually at 2s. 6d. a peece. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 195 Some sons of mine..Have sharply tax'd your converts, who unfed Have follow'd you for miracles of bread. 1737Gentl. Mag. VII. 570/1, I wonder'd, why his oxen stray'd, His sheep and heifers pine'd unfed. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xlvii. (1856) 442 Now the half-tutored, unfed Esquimaux dog would eat a goat, bones, skin, and for aught I know, horns. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) I. ii. 565 Upon his perch the falcon sat Unfed.
transf.1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer xxvii, The diet..became wellnigh intolerable: the flaccid unfed meat,..the milkless tea [etc.].
2. fig. Not supplied with necessary material, support, etc.
a1625Fletcher & Shirley Lover's Progr. iv. i, She that is forfeited to lust must dye, That humour being unfed. 1664Dryden & Howard Indian Queen iv. ii, I shou'd..like an unfed stream run on and dye. 1697Dryden æneis xi. 101 A lovely Flow'r, New cropt by Virgin Hands,..Unfaded yet, but yet unfed below. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. xliv, Even as a flame unfed, which runs to waste With its own flickering. 1883Jrnl. Educ. XVIII. 148 A church unfed from the public table. |