1583 T. Stocker tr. P. Viret 2nd Pt. Demoniacke Worlde v. sig. G4, in W. Chauncie tr. P. Viret Worlde Possessed with Deuils The diuell Mammon was vnchayned & let loose, and raigned in the worlde, and was now more vnsatiable then euer he had byn before, and therefore leaft neither purse nor bagge vnryfled.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 83 Nothing..left vnpolluted and defaced, no place vnsought, no corner vnrifled.

1653 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. for Year I. xix. 246 The estate..remains unrifled, and descends upon the heir.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes II. iii. xxiv. 1 Though of th' unrifled Gold possest Of gorgeous Ind.

1804 S. J. Arnold Foul Deeds will Rise i. iv. 30 Stand off, sir! nor dare profane with sacrilegious touch, the unrifled rosebud that before you stands!

1835 Court Mag. 6 205 Sing Birds!.. Give thanks in song for your unrifled nest!

1864 I. Taylor Words & Places 171 The hope of capturing the rich and unrifled prize.

1940 R. Graves & A. Hodge Long Week-end viii. 125 The discovery..of the unrifled tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen was given typical Twentyish publicity. Ancient Egypt suddenly became the vogue.

2007 Sunday Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. 14 I'm also surprised that he imagined he would get away with private flights and unrifled rubbish bins, given his agenda. Is there an arrogance that makes him careless?

1637 J. Prideaux Certaine Serm. 23 To strengthen the first suspicion, no Confessions, or Councells, or Authors, haue beene vnrifled by Lauater, and Parker, and others.

1637 T. Heywood Royall King Prol. No History We have left unrifled.

1739 T. Cooke Mournful Nuptials iv. i. 50 In this dear bosom of unrifled sweets Is all the treasure of my soul repos'd.

1895 A. Hayes Vale of Arden & Other Poems 56 I scale the fortress where the winds keep ward O'er health's unrifled hoard.

2000 Guardian (Nexis) 20 June 17 A similar black box will scour the myriad TV channels out there on your behalf, leaving no corner of the spectrum unrifled, and record a TV schedule tailored to your own personal preferences.

1851 J. Timbs Year-bk. of Facts 58 With a smooth or unrifled barrel, 400 discharges per hour can be made.

1860 All Year Round 15 Sept. 546 The shot of the ordinary unrifled service gun is round.

1918 Pop. Sci. Monthly Apr. 586/1 If the gun-barrel is unrifled, wings at the base of the shell make it spin and fly true.

1955 C. M. Green et al. Ordnance Dept. xii. 347 German technicians in World War II produced a curiously shaped finless mortar projectile which, shot from an unrifled bore at a low velocity, obtained stability from the air flow about it.

1997 C. Frazier Cold Mountain (2000) 85 The first year of the war had been hard for her, but at least Stobrod had left his old unrifled musket, figuring he stood a chance of bettering his weaponry if he showed up empty-handed.