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unreˈsisted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not resisted; not meeting with resistance; † irresistible.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 66 b, Leest perauenture other herynge theyr infamy vnresysted, despyse theyr holy prechynge. c1586C'tess Pembroke Psalm lxxi. ii, Show thy unresisted power, Working now thy wonted will. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 282 As corne ore-growne by weedes: so heedfull feare Is almost choakt by vnresisted lust. a1614Donne βιαθανατος (1644) 128 That for the spirituall good of another, a man should expose his own life, is an unresisted doctrine. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 19 Our God..rather then Schism shall go unresisted, will [etc.]. 1705Addison The Campaign 197 To Donavert, with unresisted force, The gay victorious army bends its course. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 370 Black heaths,..over which the unresisted wind sweeps. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xviii. IV. 119 The white flag, which..had ranged the Channel unresisted. 1881Meredith Tragic Com. i, An unresisted lady-killer is probably less aware that [etc.].
†2. Uninterrupted. Obs.—1
1603Florio Montaigne iii. iii. 498 It hath three baye-windowes, of a farre-extending, ritch and vnresisted prospect.
Hence unreˈsistedly adv.
1673Boyle Ess. Effic. Effluviums vi. 33 These pass un⁓resistedly thorow the pores of all solid Bodies, and even Glass it self. 1845E. Warburton Crescent & Cross I. 351 The influence of that discipline..was now sending them unresistedly to encounter..privation in the depths of Africa. 1889Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iii. 50 The purely hypothetical case of a vessel rolling unresistedly in still water. |