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unˈbeaten, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 b.]
1. Not beaten or struck.
a1275Prov. ælfred 448 in O.E. Misc. 129 Betere is child vnboren þenne vnbeten. a1635Corbet Iter Bor. Poems (1647) 12 His Mare went truer then his Chronicle; And even for Conscience sake unspurr'd, unbeaten, Brought us sixe miles, and turn'd taile to New-Eaton.
b. Not pounded; not broken up or softened by pounding.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 515 Yoong mice being beaten into small bits or peeces... The same being vnbeaten and roasted. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improvement 169 Stockfish whilst it is unbeaten is called Buckhorne, because it is so tough; when it is beaten upon the stock, it is termed stockfish. 1903Westm. Gaz. 3 June 5/3 The daily labour required is the picking of 2 lb. of unbeaten or 4 lb. of beaten oakum.
2. Not beaten or trodden down. Also fig.
1617Moryson Itin. i. 294 The unbeaten waies make them [miles] seeme longer. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. i. ii, To hit home through the unbeaten Woods, was strange. 1690T. Burnet Theory Earth ii. 142 Natural reason can determine neither of these, sees no tract to follow in these unbeaten paths. 1716Swift Horace iii. ii. 12 Some new unbeaten passage to the sky. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. Pref. p. iii, He does not pretend that this design is completed;..he has trodden, comparatively, an unbeaten path. 1807T. Thomson Chem. (ed. 3) II. 144 One of the first excursions made by that illustrious philosopher into the then unbeaten tracts of pneumatic chemistry. 1880I. L. Bird (title), Unbeaten Tracks in Japan.
3. Not conquered or defeated.
1757Pol. Ballads (1860) II. 338 What joy it must be to a nation like Britain, To see such a Fleet return safe and unbeaten! 1884St. L. Herbert in Fortn. Rev. Feb. 243 The Basutos, unbeaten, are thrown back upon the Imperial Government.
4. Not scoured for game.
1882N.Y. Tribune 12 July, With these companions the sportsman is taken over unbeaten ground. |