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unˈslain, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. ON. and Icel. úsleginn in sense 2, MSw. oslaghin in sense 1, Sw. oslagen in sense 3.]
1. Not put to death; not killed.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1332 Ðo wurð abraham friȝti faȝen, for ysaac bi-leaf un-slaȝen. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1858 Myȝ[t] he haf slypped to be vn-slayn, þe sleȝt were noble. c1400Laud Troy Bk. 18250 Prest, ne clerk,..Leffte the Gregais non vn-sclayn. 1470–85Malory Arthur x. lix. 515, I shalle be with yow by that day yf I be vnslayne or vnmaymed. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. ii. (1535) 101 b, They leaue no cattayle vnslayne, no gardeyne vnrobbed. 1555Phaër æneid iii. (1558) F iiij, Saue of Troy this last remayne, The leauinges of Achilles wyld and Grekes abiectes onslayne. 1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. i. ix. (1821) 117 The rest which were unslaine, returned into the Castle. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 187 To Ceres's son-in-law few kings descend Unslain. 1715Tickell Iliad i. 112 Nor does the god complain Of vows withheld or hecatombs unslain.
fig.c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1972 O deth!..his hy vertu astertith Vnslayn fro þe. 1674R. Godfrey Inj. & Ab. Physic 8 Spurious Mercurial [remedies], and ill-made Antimonial ones, that..have the Mercury unslain. 1779Cowper Olney Hymns lvii, One sin, unslain, within my breast, Would make that heav'n as dark as hell.
†2. Uncut, unmown. Obs.
c1440Pallad. on Husb. i. 239 Lupyne and ficchis slayn..are as dongyng, londis boote. And let hem drie vnslayn, and vp they drinke The londis iuce. |