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unˈgraven, ppl. a.
Also 4 vngraue.
[un-1 8 b. Cf. (M)Du. ongegraven unburied, undug.]
1. Not engraved or carved.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. iv. 130 That..Rome-renneres [take]..no siluer ouer see,..Noyther graue ne vngraue. 1611Florio, Inscolpito, vncarued, vngrauen. 1651Stanley Poems 169 The oaks that most obdurate are Shall..by themselves ungraven wear My verse upon their leaves and rind. 1855M. Arnold Balder Dead ii. 165 Young men who died Too soon for fame, with white ungraven shields.
†2. Unburied, uninterred. Obs.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 11104 Kyng Priamus Thought..Where he myght saue Ector his sone Vngrauen with-oute corrupcione. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. x. 2590 Mony a day Vngraiffin [v.r. wngrawyn] outwith þe erd he lay. |