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unˈgarbled, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not garbled, cleansed, or sifted; not selected or sorted out.
1439Rolls of Parlt. V. 32/1, Uppon peyne of forfaiture of the said Spiceries so yfound ungarbeled and unclensyd. 1483Act 1 Rich. III, c. xi. §1 They will not suffre any garbelyng of theym to be made but sell good and bad at so excessyf price togedyr ungarbeled. 1614St. Papers., Col., E. Indies (1862) 294, 20 bags of ungarbled pepper. 1649Jrnl. Ho. Commons VI. 304/1 An Act for Liberty to transport Spices ungarbled, was this Day read the Third time. 1859R. F. Burton Centr. Afr. in Jrnl. Geog. Soc. XXIX. 37 At the end of the rains..[the copal] is usually carried ungarbled to Zanzibar. c1870Townend & Co.'s Circular Col. & For. Produce s.v. Coffee, Mocha Coffee, ungarbled.
2. Of a fact or statement: Not mutilated or misrepresented.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. No. 41 (1726) 213 Some future unprostituted, ungarbled history of a rebellion. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 116 A jury of the original, the constitutional, the ungarbled, the uncorrupted stamp. 1834H. N. Coleridge Grk. Poets (ed. 2) 141 It is not without parallel in the ungarbled writings of greater wits than Zoilus. |