unpainfuladj.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 338 (MED) Who þat schal..bynde oon and do of, he schal chese after þe moste vnpeynefull [L. indolorosissimam] maner and schappe.

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke v. xx. 245 Oedema..is a certaine loose and vnpainefull tumour, or it is a certaine thinne swelling without paine.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxii. sig. Y6^v If we owe a Retribution for vnpainefull Courtesies.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. iv. 49 That being generally call'd..soft, which changes the Situation of its parts upon an easie and unpainful touch.

1739 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. xxx. 102 The small Remainder of the Tumour was unpainful.

1762 A. Portal Innocence 50 Thence He, by Toil unpainful, can procure For all his real Wants Supplies.

1814 Q. Visitor Mar. 205 Having done its office, it is useless; nay it is an inconvenience not unpainful.

1853 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 9 Mar. 121 The speculum—a means of diagnosis in uterine disease, chaste in its application, unpainful, and correct in delineating pathological facts.

1902 Idler Feb. 96/1 If empty, her life now was placid, unpainful.

1919 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 507 If a man refuses to accept reasonably undangerous and unpainful treatment by which his disability may be reduced or removed, he should receive no pension.

2003 M. Anderson in S. Petrilli Transl., Transl. 410 Transition from the closed group of the institute into the world is not always smooth and unpainful.

c1450 (?c1400) tr. Honorius Augustodunensis Elucidarium (1909) 21 (MED) Aftir his owne kynde he [sc. Christ] was unpayneful & vndeedly.

1550 R. Hutchinson Image of God xxv. f. cxxiii^v We are vnpainfull in doynge our duties, he was scourged, and whypped of hys owne wyll for vs.

1582 R. Parsons Def. Censure 35 With what modestie, or conscience can he, sitting in England, gyue sentence of all the monkes and friars in Christendome abroade, that they are vnlearned, vnpainfull, and vnholye?

1733 A. Baxter Enq. Nature Human Soul iv. 142 The soul would always chuse to act by itself, retiring from the body while it were indisposed, that it might enjoy a separate and unpainful state of existence.

1752 J. Parsons Philos. Observ. Propagation Animals & Veg. v. 184 Creatures, whose Sensations are as delicate, and whose natural Right to an unpainful Enjoyment of Life is as great as that of Man.

1823 J. Wilson Trials Margaret Lyndsay xxv. 134 She lay awake great part of the night—and thought, with almost unpainful tears, of those whom she had survived.

1861 H. C. Jenkin Who breaks—Pays II. 261 The first unpainful feeling I have had for three quarters of a year.

1956 S. Gibbons Here be Dragons xxi. 304 It was delicious to feel unhappiness receding gradually to a distance: remote: unpainful.

2004 in B. Burton & A. Graham Never threaten to eat your Co-workers 249 You must believe me that this particular regret will not be unpainful.