unweededadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈwiːdᵻd/, U.S. /ˌənˈwidᵻd/ 1. Of ground: Not cleared of weeds. Also figurative.In later use frequently in figurative context in echoes of quot. 1604.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > cleared > not cleared or overgrown
unclean?1440
weedy?1440
spare1508
unweeded1604
uncleared1623
twitchy1652
uncured1719
turfy1733
mushroomed1886
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 135 Fie on't, ah fie, tis an vnweeded garden That growes to seede, things rancke and grose in nature, Possesse it meerely. View more context for this quotation
1624 J. Ussher Serm. 48 The field is the same, but weeded now, unweeded then.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 654 The human mind, like an unweeded garden, has been suffered to shoot up in wild disorder.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow 19 The evils of a rank and unweeded Press.
1824 J. Telfer Border Ballads 32 The wood it was dern, unweeded, and wild.
1842 New Monthly Mag. 64 i. 400 All the rashness, insolence, and brutality of an un~weeded and newly-raised constabulary.
2. Not cleared away or rooted up as weeds. In quots. figurative.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > [adjective] > unassuaged (of suffering)
unrecured?a1439
unweeded1635
unassuaged1655
the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > not removed or rooted up (of pride)
unweeded1635
1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God 42 All men by nature, (that is from the unweeded relikes of our first Parents pride) are prone to overvalue themselves.
1645 H. Hammond Of Death-bed Repent. 29 The..hospitable soyle, contrary both to the thorny and stony ground, the one when the cares of the world are unweeded, unmortifyed, the other when [etc.].
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adj.1604