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unˈprayed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of persons:
a. Not entreated or besought; unasked; uninvited. Also with to.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 513 Syn þat thow slest so fele..Ayeins hir wil vnpreyed day and nyghte, Do me..this seruyse. c1400Love Bonavent. Mirr. (1908) 116 In that oure lord mekely vnpreide wente bodily to hele the sike seruaunt. c1440Gesta Rom. lxv. 290 (Add. MS.), The lyon, the Ape, and the Serpent, yelded hym mede, because he drew hem out of the pitte vnpraied. 1536in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 407 Whatsoever man..goeth in to anny such housse..unpraied or bidden. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvi. xlv, To my sutors old what I denaid, That gaue I thee..vnpraid. 1681H. More in Glanvill's Sadducismus i. Postscr. 51 The holy Angels..which..reinforce the prayers of good and holy men..unprayed to themselves. 1849M. Arnold Fragm. of ‘Antigone’ 5 Who, weighing that life well Fortune presents unpray'd, Declines her ministry.
†b. Not moved by prayer. Obs.—1
1567Drant Horace, Ep. A iiij, If thou wouldest set Achilles oute,..Let him be swift, chafing, vnprayed, inflamde to vengaunce sone.
2. Not prayed for; without being prayed for.
1533More Apol. xxviii. Wks. 894/1 Yf they leue nothing vnpraied for that mai perteine to the pacificacion of this diuision. 1703De Foe More Reform. 50 What Capital offence Could bar thee from the Priests Benevolence, That they..should..let thee live unbless'd, unprayed for Die. |