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unˈdead, a.
[un-1 7. Cf. ON. údauðr.]
Not dead; alive. Also, not quite dead but not fully alive, dead-and-alive. In vampirism, clinically dead but not yet at rest. Also absol. as n.
a1400–50Alexander 158 And many was þe bald berne at banned þar quile, Þat euer he dured þat day vndede opon erthe. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 855 Ane of vs sall neuer hine Vndeid in this place. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. John vi. 41 b, Where as all men did eat therof, they neuertheles dyed, nether did any one of so great a number remain vndead. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. vii. xxxiv. 149 The same..That thought he liued not because his Neeces weare vndead. 1897B. Stoker Dracula xxvii. 381 There remain one more victim in the Vampire fold; one more to swell the grim and grisly ranks of the Un-dead. Ibid. 382 This then was the Un-Dead home of the King-Vampire. 1920H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 286/2 Presently by some amazing miracle he would become undead again and return, and set up his throne with much splendour and graciousness in Jerusalem. 1936Dylan Thomas Twenty-Five Poems 4 They suffer the undead water where the turtle nibbles. 1949D. L. Sayers tr. Dante's Divine Comedy I. viii. 118 Why walks this man, Undead, the kingdom of the dead? 1956C. S. Lewis Till we have Faces xiv. 169 Shadow and monster in one, may be, a ghostly, un-dead thing. 1959Twentieth Cent. Dec. 427 The vampire or ‘undead’ can only move about freely..between sunset and sunrise. 1972P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth (1973) iv. 62 They still inhabit their original bodies, but these have faded and thinned in their component matter until they can no longer be said to exist in the dimension of the living. Their flesh is not alive, not dead, but ‘undead’. 1981J. Sutherland Bestsellers v. 59 The good old folkloric remedies for killing the undead. |