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unˈgathered, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongegaderd, -gegaard.]
1. Not gathered or brought together; uncollected.
1461Rolls of Parlt. V. 495/1 Youre dettes remaynyng ungadered. 1481Coventry Leet Bk. 478 Þer rested behynde vngadered..of þe seide hole some xiij li. ix s. vj d. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxvi. 332 A great parte of that money as than nat payde and vngadered. 1590H. Barrow in Confer. i. 9 They being as yet vngathered to Christ. 1625Chas. I Sp. in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 177 Your love to me..you expressed by a Grant of Two Subsidies yet ungathered. 1851Buried City of East, Nineveh vi. 93 Finding..the bundle of faggots for the evening fire yet ungathered. 1873Proctor Expanse Heav. 191 Enormous quantities of as yet ungathered materials.
b. spec. (See quot.)
1888Jacobi Printers' Vocab., Ungathered, books delivered to binders in sheets, i.e. not gathered into books.
2. Of flowers, etc.: Not gathered or culled; unpicked, unharvested.
1592Daniel Compl. Rosamond I 3 b, Th' vngathred Rose, defended with the thornes. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. lxv. 412 If at this time there be found euer a combe vngathered and not pluckt away,..you must not therefore kill the Bees. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. i. 51 We wonder'd..For whom so late th' ungather'd Apples hung. 1825Scott Talism. xix, Is it not hard that..I should be doomed to see fade before me ungathered such a rich harvest of glory to God? 1850Tennyson In Mem. civ, This holly by the cottage-eave, To night, ungather'd, shall it stand. 1896Daily News 4 Sept. 7/5 The barleys which are still ungathered will, it is feared, be spoilt for malting purposes.
3. Not drawn together.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 63 Ouer all when they goe abroad they weare gownes..vngathered in the shoulders. 1690C. Nesse O. & N. Test. I. 104 As a web of cloth is rolled up, only a little left at the end ungathered. |