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unmaˈnured, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Of land: Uncultivated, untilled. Obs.
In frequent use from c 1590 to c 1640.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 222/2 The prouince lay waste and vnmanured. 1578Lyte Dodoens 257 All rough and unmanured places. 1632W. Lithgow Trav. iii. 85, I could not find a foote of ground vnmanured. c1694Dryden Let. to J. Dennis ⁋4 It looks like a vast tract of land newly discover'd: the soil is wonderfully fruitful, but unmanur'd. 1721Ramsay Prospect of Plenty 222 To let braid tracts of land lie unmanur'd.
b. fig. or in fig. contexts.
1594Selimus 381 It argueth an unmanured wit. a1631Donne Heroical Epist. 36 Thy body is a naturall Paradise, In whose selfe, unmanur'd, all pleasure lies. 1663Cowley On Orinda's Poems ii, 'Twere shame..if in thee A Spirit so rich..Should unmanur'd, or barren lye. 1700T. Brown Amusem. Ser. & Com. 69 Gallantry..which was formerly so well Cultivated,..is at present Desolate, Unmanur'd and Abandoned!
2. Not supplied with manure.
[1828–32Webster.] 1849Johnston Exp. Agric. 105 The unmanured [crop] might have ripened its seed while the manured was still growing. 1868Rep. U.S. Commissioner Agric. (1869) 419 The average product of unmanured American soil. |