unsaltedadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈsɒltᵻd/, /(ˌ)ʌnˈsɔːltᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈsɔltəd/, /ˌənˈsɑltəd/ a. (un- prefix1 2. Cf. North Frisian unsalted, (Middle) Swedish osaltad, (Middle) Danish usaltet.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > [adjective] > salted > not
saltlessa1398
unsalt1435
unpowdered1440
unsaltedc1440
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 366/2 On-powderyd, on-saltyd, insalitus.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Qi A maturatife made with butter wel wasshed and vnsalted.
1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 473 Pease.., whether they be gray or white vnsalted.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique v. xvi. 682 Sprinkled with neats blood mingled with oile oliue vnsalted.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Poupelin Good melted and unsalted Butter.
1731 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Nature Aliments vi. 84 The Cure of this Distemper lies in a Diet of fresh unsalted Things.
1820 W. Scoresby Acct. Arctic Regions I. 342 Unsalted mutton and beef.
1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner I. vii. 126 Villages lying along the unsalted streams.
b. figurative. (See quots.)
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the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > unpreparedness > [adjective] > unready or immature
green?a1300
rawa1398
indigest1398
unmatured?a1425
unripea1500
unseasonable1515
unbuilded1519
inchoate1534
unripened1561
uncivil1572
unmellowed1573
unmanured1577
unblown1587
ungrown1593
unpolished1594
rudimental1597
rude1600
unsalted1602
unseasoned1602
unlicked1612
embryon1613
unbakeda1616
unbloweda1616
unfledged1615
unmellow1615
sappya1627
embryous1628
unconcocteda1631
unkneaded1633
immature1635
sucking1648
vacuous1651
embryo1659
unelaborate1663
unmature1673
unformed1689
undeveloped1736
infantile1772
uncultivated1796
unelaborated1817
fetal1820
embryotic1823
embryonic1825
embryonary1833
sophomoric1837
seedling1843
rudimentary1851
unwrought1869
juvenescent1875
vealy1890
under-developed1892
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. ii. sig. G3v Your vnsalted fresh foole is your onely man.
a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 489 It is impossible for a man of an vnsalted heart, so to counterfait the language of Canaan.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xiv. 139 Compiler of that unsalted and Simonical praier annex'd.
1879 R. J. Atcherley Trip to Boërland 208 ‘Unsalted’ horses, i.e. those which have not passed through the ordeal [of the disease].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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