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unˈrectified, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not corrected or amended.
1638Rider Horace, Odes iii. xiv, You youths,..Forbeare all languages unrectifi'd. 1662Hibbert Body Divinity i. 306 Many things were left unrectified, which..they did not see. 1686Jeffreys in Howell State Trials (1811) XI. 591/2 That one mistake in point of law might not go unrectified. 1837Wordsw. Mem. Tour Italy i. 329 Diligence uninspired, Unrectified, unguided..By godlike insight. 1895W. H. Hudson Spencer's Philos. 171 The unrectified egotistic emotions of the dweller in cave and wilderness.
2. Not purified or refined.
1663Boyle Usef. Exp. Nat. Philos. ii. ii. 36 Unrectified spirit of man's blood. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. 144/1 The Oil..stinks so abominably, that it is scarce possible to be used alone, especially unrectified. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Purging, Unrectified oil of amber. 1840Hood Kilmansegg, Misery ix, Drops of unrectified spirit distill'd From the limbeck of Pride and Vanity. |