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uneˈxhausted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8 and 5 b.]
1. Not emptied or drained of contents.
1648Boyle Seraph. Love (1659) 87 His Plenty being so unexhausted a spring of goods. 1652E. Benlowes Theoph. vii. xc, Flouds of unebbing joyes..Thou dost exhibit in an unexhausted bowl! 1704Phil. Trans. XXV. 1786 As the Vibrations in the unexhausted Receiver were a little contracted. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 245 Neptune's unexhausted bank has store Of endless wealth. 1833–4J. Phillips Geol. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VI. 756/2 An unexhausted fountain of melted matter.
2. Not used up, expended, or brought to an end.
1602Lodge Josephus, Antiq. vi. xiv. 149 Whatsoeuer they be that spend their many and vnexhausted labours in their seruice. 1656Cowley Pindar. Odes, 2nd Olympique vii, In the Lands of unexhausted Light. a1704T. Brown Mr. H. Silly Wks. 1711 IV. 249 Thy Tenants,..With deep and unexhausted Woe, Lament their Generous Master dead. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 77 Such unexhausted interest..belongs to the heir as real estate undisposed of. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 112 Having separated into two streams, the unexhausted torrent again recommenced its march. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 93 Tenant right consists in giving the tenant a right to claim the value of any unexhausted improvements. |