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unˈhealthsome, a. Now rare.
[un-1 7.
The spelling with -same in quots. 1597–9 is due to the Dutch origin of the translations (after Du. -saem).]
1. Unwholesome.
1544Betham Precepts War ii. xxxviii. K vij, To make the water noysome and vnhealthsome to thyne enemies. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 378/1 Experience also hath taught the same to defende any man from vn⁓healthsame ayre. 1621Henryson's Fables (1832) 50 Un⁓healthsome meat is of ane sairie Mouse. a1860J. Younger Autobiog. (1881) 130 No corn in these years was substantial; all meal black ‘mattened’ and unhealthsome.
2. Unhealthy.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 23/1 In aged persons, and in those which are vnhealthsame of bodye. Ibid. 52/1 Those which..have binn badlye nourished, we call vnhealthsame poeple.
Hence unˈhealthsomeness. ? Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 688 The aire is vnhole⁓some. But what vnhealthsomenesse can there be found, where God is found? |