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undeˈfaced, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not defaced or disfigured; not destroyed.
c1400Destr. Troy 8730 He fraynet..How the korse might be keppit..Fresshe, vndefacede, & in fyne hew. 1537Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden) 164 The churche and house remenythe as yet undefacede. 1566Eng. Ch. Furniture (Peacock, 1866) 115 John hyxon haythe ij candelstickes & sensors vndefased. 1582Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees, 1860) 100 The chamber, as yt now standeth, vndefaced. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. To Rdr., Such memorials..as were remaining yet vndefaced. 1676Hobbes Iliad 374 Yet is his body uncorrupt,..And..doth whole remain And undefac'd, the bloud all washt away. 1772[Shrubsole & Denne] Hist. Rochester 63 The monuments of the dead..escaped undefaced. 1839Darwin Voy. Nat. xxiii. 604 The primeval forests undefaced by the hand of man. 1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 165 Never again would she lie in the moonlight, beautiful and gracious and undefaced.
2. Not obliterated or blotted out; uneffaced.
1565MS. Cott. Cal. B. 10. fol. 270 Which charters remain still undefaced. a1619M. Fotherby Atheom. i. iii. §3 (1622) 19 There is a sense of God still vndefac't. 1633T. Nashe Quaternio (1636) 224 Both he and shee are branded with infamie, and the stigmaticall characters remaine as yet vndefaced in them. 1709Brit. Apollo II. No. 15. 1/2 Undefac'd Impressions of our Maker's Image. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxi, The softer substances, when they receive an impression, retain it undefaced. 1873W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 333 The undefaced cross and bull on the door-post. |