undispensedadj.
Not absolved or released by dispensation. Also absol.
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society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > [adjective] > bound or under obligation > still
undispenseda1300
undefeased1492
unrelieved1533
unexempted1636
unexempt1637
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28367 In dedly sin i tok vnscriuen Myn orders.., And..vn-despensed sang i messe.
1604 W. Tooker Of Fabrique of Church 47 He..doth not onely seeke being vnqualified and vndispensed with to procure vnto himselfe two diuerse Ecclesiasticall dignities.
1863 S. Wilberforce in R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1882) III. 87 Then the undispensed are bound, because the dispensed are released.
1902 Academy 24 May 526/1 Even undispensed, such [convent] vows do not invalidate a marriage subsequently contracted.
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