1433 in A. C. Swinton Swintons (1883) App. p. xxxvi The said landis war in our handis at the said terme unrecouerit till the forsaid hair and..lyand still vnraisit quhile the forsaid Williame..had ressauit sesing.

1476 in A. C. Swinton Swintons (1883) App. p. lxi To kep the said landis to be unracouerit fra hym be the law.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xvi. 913 He made his next practise and preparation to haue agayne Reggia and Rubiera,..as though in that regarde he coulde not but beare dishonour and infamie, to leaue them vnrecouered.

1697 J. Pollexfen Disc. Trade & Coyn 4 The other half Million..we may be sure they did not give us, or left unrecovered, but took it from us.

1782 R. Bage Mt. Henneth I. 255 I have loans here still unrecovered, to the amount of sixty [thousand pounds] more.

1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 92/2 Six weeks his body lay unrecovered; at the end of that time, it was found,..and buried.

1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead iii. 235 They bind us..To leave for ever Balder in the grave, An unrecover'd prisoner.

1950 Rotarian Mar. 27/1 No more oil remains unrecovered than is absolutely unavoidable.

2001 Independent (Nexis) 7 Apr. (Business section) 19 PG&E filed for protection because California would not cover the utility for its unrecovered costs.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades v. 83 Consider these affaires in time..And haue the grace to turne from Greece: fates vnrecouered howre.

1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 25 Too late (alas) we find The softness of thy sward..To be the onely cause of vnrecouer'd spoile.

1616 J. Taylor Seuerall Sieges Ierusalem in Vrania sig. E^v Then fell they to an vnrecouer'd wane, They all in generall, were or slaine or tane.

1802 A. Seward Let. 15 May (1811) VI. 22 Rheumatism combines with the added weakness entailed upon me by the yet unrecovered accident of spring-twelvemonth.

1907 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 117 Shall we stop fighting once we have learned how, Or call one unrecovered fall defeat?

1682 J. Phillips Conf. Observator & Heraclitus 23 Instead of a Virgin, she brought him an old, cunning, Gilting Whore, that infused such a Babylonish Contagion into him, that..he is unrecovered to this day.

a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 94 Lychenor following with a downward Blow, Reach'd in the Lake his unrecover'd Foe.

1760 J. Cleland Romance of Day 44 They would bring in the gentleman, who lay on the ground unrecovered from his swoon.

1849 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 June 424 An unrecovered patient, who objects to his temporary protection against killing his friends or firing his or their buildings.

1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. VI. xxxi. 235 With a stomach unrecovered from the sea..he sate down..to a public English supper.

1921 Jrnl. Kansas Med. Soc. 21 229/2 He has been in two local hospitals for a week or two but was discharged unrecovered.

2003 K. Cole Captain of All Pleasures v. 62 Nicole followed Chancey blindly into the waning night, still unrecovered from her shock.