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▪ I. unˈtaken, ppl. a.1
Also 4 untak(e, 5–6 Sc. untane, 5 wntayne, etc.
[un-1 8 b, c, and 5 c. Cf. ON. útekinn, MSw. otakin.]
1. Not taken by force; not made prisoner; uncaptured.
c1350Will. Palerne 1280 Riȝt fewe went a-wey vn-woundet or take. c1400Song of Roland 89 He left vntak the toun, and to his tent ridis. c1470Henry Wallace v. 853 Lest he in strenth wntayne, This haill kynryk he wyll wyn. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. xciii. 115 Sir Robert Dartoyes was sore hurte, and scapedde hardely vntaken. 1577Dee General & Rare Mem. 4 Their Marchantlike Ships..may..pas quietly vnpilled, vnspoyled, and vntaken by Pyrates. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. 499 Albeit the foulers doe..catch great store of young water-foule, yet..abundance..remaineth untaken. 1697Dryden æneis x. 1173 Untouch'd thy Arms, untaken be thy Sword. 1722De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 188 The most prosperous untaken thief. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 562 A wise general will..leave no little stronghold untaken behind him. 1847Mrs. A. Kerr tr. Ranke's Hist. Servia 317 Whilst that [fort] remained untaken. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 108 That he..scarce had trod Untaken on its floor.
2. Not taken, in other senses of the verb. Also const. from.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 204 He levis it [sc. the consecrated wafer] untane for despising of the sacrament. 1474Cov. Leet Bk. 410 In case the oportunite of this tyme shuld nowe..be vntaken or sett a-part. 1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 6 §3 The Jurie is like to remayne untaken for defaulte of Jurors. 1586T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. 159 It is expedient sometime to leave untaken that which a man may lawfully take. 1600Surflet Countrie Farme ii. lxv. 412 The honie..which is left vntaken from them. 1613Sherley Trav. Persia 4, I left no paines untaken to accelerat it [sc. a journey]. 1735Bolingbroke Study Hist. i. (1752) 7 That they might leave no liberty untaken. 1880‘Ouida’ Moths xvii, Resolute to leave no pains untaken.
b. With advs., as away, down, off, up.
1483Acta Audit. in Acta Dom. Conc. II. Introd. 120 The malis and fermes..to be untakin up be ony party. 1526Tindale 2 Cor. iii. 14 Vntill this daye remayneth the same coverynge vntaken awaye. 1539–40Coverdale in Money Parish Goods Berks. (1879) p. vi, All the beams..remain still untaken down. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 33 If they [sc. lentils] be sodden with theyr shilles vntaken of. 1610J. Dove Advt. Seminaries 3 That veile..untill this time hath continued untaken away. 1683J. Reid Scots Gard'ner (1907) 77 Bark..untaken off at the upper end. 1701Col. Rec. Pennsylv. II. 43 All other lands that are mine untaken up. 1822A. Cunningham Tradit. T. (1887) 136 My supper shall be the untaken-down spirit. 1836[see unstrengthened].
c. With other constructions.
1583A. Melvill in J. Melvill's Autob. & Diary (Wodrow Soc.) 155 Na obstinat Papist..hes it sufferit lang to converse amangs us, untean ordour withe. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. iii. §105 The King and Queen sate untaken notice of. 1904E. Nesbit Phœnix & Carpet vii. 127 The four children found themselves at Waterloo Station quite untaken-care-of.
▪ II. unˈtaken, ppl. a.2
(un-2 3, 8.)
1893Baring-Gould Cheap Jack Zita II. 150 Whether taken and confiscated I cannot say... But I have paid ten pounds to have it untaken and set at liberty. |