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unˈquickened, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God 489 Bodyes that haue a liuing soule (though as yet vnquickned by the spirit). 1639Bp. Reynolds Lord's Supper xvii, A bodily and un⁓quickned service. 1712Blackmore Creation vi. 290 Which numerous, but unquicken'd progeny,..inwrapt within each other lie. 1755H. Walpole Lett. (1846) III. 125 You may imagine our land-spirit will not be unquickened neither. 1868Boyd Less. Middle Age 382 Shakspere..probably wrote, with pulse unquickened, the wildest bursts of Othello. 1876C. M. Yonge Womankind xi. 83 It is constant use of the powers that is needed, not only dead acquirement unquickened by exertion. |