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uncurˈtailed, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1741Richardson Pamela II. 21 Will you,..on your Honour, let me see them uncurtail'd, and not offer to make them away? 1820T. Mitchell Aristoph. I. 25 To our share Fell some fine oxen—whole, sirs,—uncurtail'd. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 288 Making use of their yet uncurtailed powers of persecution. 1861W. S. Perry Hist. Ch. Eng. I. iv. 171 The ancient canon law was still in force, uncurtailed by the Reformation. |