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▪ I. undeˈlivered, ppl. a.1
[un-1 8 + deliver v.1]
1. Not handed over or transferred to another's possession; not delivered or distributed.
1472–3Rolls of Parlt. VI. 5/2 [The money] there to be kept, undelyvered by eny mean unto You, Soverayn Lord. 1561–2Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 203 To keip the samyn in his handis and keping undeliverit to George Dowglas. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xxiv. §17 To withdraw any mite of that..bequeathed, though as yet undelivered into the sacred treasure of God. 1640–1Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 79 We resolve to keip the commissione undelyverit till we heir from you. 1767in Nairne Peerage Evidence (1874) 169 These presents shall be habit and repute a valid & delivered evident albeit found..undelivered the time of my death. 1775Sheridan Duenna i. iii, I must slip out to seal it up, as undelivered. 1842Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) IV. 29 If he found the fortress..undelivered, he was to remonstrate loudly against its being surrendered. 1887Daily News 6 Oct. 2/8 Discovery of undelivered letters.
2. Not set free or released. Also const. from.
a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 382 The prynce..remayned longe after vndelyuered wt many other prysoners. 1653Milton Hirelings Wks. 1851 V. 339 To deliver us the only People of all Protestants left still undeliver'd from the Oppressions of a simonious decimating Clergy. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. III. xliii. 355 He..did as much as possible he might to see them undelivered. 1837Wordsw. White Doe Introd., The soul..from mortal bonds Yet undelivered.
†3. Not dispatched or disposed of. Obs.—1
1535Stewart Cron. Scotl. (Rolls) II. 240 The Saxone herald thair remaning maid, Ȝit wndeliuerit on his ansuer baid.
4. Of a child: Not brought forth or born.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars ii. xcvii, This mighty burthen wherewithall they goe Dies vndeliuered, perishes vnborne.
5. Of a woman: Not disburdened of offspring.
1799Med. Jrnl. II. 434 It is not improbable that..the poor woman..survived as long as she would have done, if she had been permitted to perish undelivered. 1871A. Meadows Man. Midwifery (ed. 2) 242 Rather than see the mother die undelivered, I used the perforator and extracted.
6. Not made or attempted.
1895Review of Rev. Aug. 148 An attack, which now, alas, must remain for ever undelivered.
▪ II. † undeˈlivered, ppl. a.2 Obs.—1
[un-1 8 + deliver v.2]
Unconsidered, unwise.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. xi. 3172 Off þare counsall and assent, And vndeliuerit [15.. Lansdowne MS. vndeliberait] avisment, Thare estait þai renunsit haill. |