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undeˈcayed, ppl. a.
Also 6 Sc. ondekeyt.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not decayed or impaired; not reduced in quality or condition.
1513Douglas æneid x. xiv. 71 Hys stalwart hart And curage ondekeyt was gude in neyd. 1697Dryden æneis x. 860 How fierce in fight, with courage undecay'd; Judge if such warriors want immortal aid. 1815Byron Hebrew Mel., ‘When coldness wraps’ ii, Eternal, boundless, undecay'd, A thought unseen, but seeing all. 1869Duke of Argyll Primeval Man iv. 158 Accidents which did not happen to civilized nations so long as their civilization was yet undecayed.
2. That has not begun to crumble or fall in pieces; not physically wasted.
1632W. Lithgow Trav. iii. 86 The Temple..is a worke..as yet vndecayed. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1683) 39 Coffins of this Wood, which he found yet fresh and undecayed. 1799Kirwan Geol. Ess. 198 We find the quantity of iron much the same as in undecayed basalts. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. xlviii. 469 The one in a putrescent and the other in an undecayed state. 1864J. Raine Hexham (Surtees) I. Pref. p. lv, In the grave were..a chasuble, a tunic, and a napkin uninjured and undecayed.
Hence undeˈcayedness.
1650Trapp Comm. Num. xi. 7 This might be some cause of Moses his undecayedness. |