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unˈserved, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not served or furnished with something; not attended to.
c1350Leg. Rood (1871) 85 Sen sekenes es sent to þe Þir men sall noght vnserued be, Þai sall haue nayles or þai ga. 1433Rolls of Parlt. IV. 439/1 Yf I shuld paye hem, youre Household, Chambre and Warderope..shuld be unservid and unpaide. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 302 Onely Phocion was remainyng unserved by reason that the poison had been all consumed by the others. a1585Montgomerie Cherry & Slae 1083 Who came uncald, unserv'd shuld sit. a1600Deloney Jack of Newberie iv, Well, looke there be not one hog vnserued. 1624Essex his Ghost 16 His people I hope will turne your golden..Coates into Coates of Male,..rather then your Soueraigne.. shall bee vnserued. 1786R. Heathcote Sylva (1788) 256 His boy therefore sent away unserved a customer. 1804R. Anderson Cumbld. Ball. 79 The witch weyfe begg'd in our back seyde, But went unsarra'd away. 1832H. Martineau Each & All iii. 33 Conscience awakes..to the cry of unserved humanity. 1899Daily News 3 Nov. 7/6 Several of their unserved guns were shelled vigorously.
b. spec. Not attended to by a priest or incumbent. (See serve v. 14.)
The app. early instance in Wyclif's De Ecclesia is prob. an error for ‘unlerned’, the reading of MS. Bodl. 788.
1562in Strype Ann. Ref. (1709) I. xxxi. 312 So that the people be not unserved or defrauded of a reasonable minister. 1587Holinshed Chron. (ed. 2) III. 1142/1 Where through died manie..priests, so that a great number of parishes were vnserued. 1643Baker Chron., Q. Mary 106 This yeer..was great mortality, and specially of Priests, so as many Churches were unserved. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 466 It permits an infant to present a clerk..rather than..suffer the church to be unserved till he comes of age.
2. Not worshipped, regarded, or observed.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 85 Þese feyned goddes..beeþ i-serued in Chestre... Þan is Pluto not vnserued, god of helle. 1390Gower Conf. I. 355 The cherche is brent, the priest is slain,..The lawe is lore and god unserved. c1450Mirk's Festial 267 Mony seyntys-dayes we leuen yn þe ȝere vnseruet; for þay ben so many þat we may not serue hom all. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 495/2 Nor saint Paule..meaneth not yet they shall leaue the sacramentes vnserued which God hath taught.
3. Law.
a. Of writs, summonses, etc.: Not served upon a person.
1465Paston Lett. II. 201 The shyrf sayd playnly that he..derst not serve it [sc. a writ],..and so it ys yet unservyd. 1476Acta Auditorum (1839) 49/2 Þe persons of þe inqueste allegeit before þe lordis þat þe said breve wes vnseruit. 1908Daily Chron. 10 Jan. 3/5 The constabulary were withdrawn, and the processes remained unserved.
†b. Sc. Not returned as heir. Obs.
1490Acta Dom. Conc. (1839) 125/2 Patrik and William..sall nocht fortify þe partij þat beis one seruit be that inquest.
4. Not served up.
1871Ruskin Fors Clav. iii, The waiter then and there packed his knapsack and departed,..leaving my dinner unserved.
5. With for: For which service has not been done.
1555Inv. Ch. Goods (Surtees) 157, xij li bequeithed..to the finding of a prieste there for iij yeares.., whereof remayned unserved for at the tyme.., xiijs. iiijd. |