† unfinedadj.
Obsolete.
Unrefined, unpurified.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [adjective] > mixed with something > not freed from inferior matter
unfinec1400
unfined1568
unrefined1588
impure1626
1568 (a1500) Colkelbie Sow iii. l. 37 in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 305 So long as it lay on the ground It was vnfynit as fruct nevirmoir found.
1606 W. Crashaw Falsificationum Romanarum 33 This is new and vnfined wine put into this old vessell.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Balluque, gold ore, or gold vnfined.
?1623 O. Felltham Resolues lxxxix. 294 In drinking the Wine, that is yet vnfined.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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adj.1568- to drink it
- to drink it all out
- to drink like a fish
- to drink like a lord
- to drink maudlin
- to drink more than one can carry
- to drink of the cup of sorrow
- to drink off candle-ends
- to drink off candleends
- to drink one's eyes out
- to drink one's eyes out of one's head
- to drink oneself drunk
- to drink oneself into incoherence
- to drink oneself into spirit
- to drink oneself out of a situation
- to drink oneself silly
- to drink oneself sleepy
- to drink oneself stupid
- to drink oneself tame
- to drink oneself to death
- to drink or eat out of doors
- to drink or lick on the whip
- to drink or lick up on the whip
- to drink or play cop-out
- to drink or play copout