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unˈplanted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. ON. úplantaðr.]
1. Not set in the ground; growing without having been planted. Also fig.
In first quot. rendering L. *implantatus, a misreading of implanatus ‘deceived’.
1382Wyclif Ecclus. xxxiv. 11 Who is vnplauntid, shal abound shreudenesse. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme 735 No more..can the vine well..endure after it is cut to be long kept vnplanted. 1639Waller Battle Summer Isl. i. 5 Figs there unplanted through the fields do grow. a1750A. Hill Happy Man 5 Unplanted groves rise round his shelter'd seat.
2. a. Of countries, etc.: Not occupied or colonized; not developed by cultivation.
1612Capt. Smith Proc. Virginia 104 But God that would not it [sc. Virginia] should bee unplanted, sent Sir Thomas Gates..to preserue us. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 354 The countrey remaining unplanted by any forrainers. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 436 To be lock'd up in an unplanted Island. 1807J. Barlow Columb. iv. 572 The future sires of our unplanted states.
b. Of ground: Not set with plants. Also fig.
a1800Pitt in Nat. Rev. (1892) XIX. 298, I..left for thee my downy bed, Unplanted yet with thorns. 1805Monthly Mag. XX. 110 [Land] unsown, unplanted, untilled.
3. Not put in position.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 38 At the East end..lies a number of great Ordnance vnplanted.
4. Sc. Not provided with a minister.
a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1843) II. 186 It was ordeaned..that Mr. George Hay..preache in the unplanted kirks of Carrick. |