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unˈsifted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongezift.]
1. Not passed through a sieve; unstrained.
1589Cogan Haven Health (ed. 2) iv. 25 When meale wholly vnsifted..is made into Bread. 1628May Virg. Georg. i. 5 The ground one yeare at rest; forget not than..to hearten it againe..with unsifted ashes. 1784Cowper Task vi. 108 Swallowing..The total grist unsifted, husks and all. 1870Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1871) 138 Pure unsifted solar light is white.
2. Unexamined, unscrutinized.
1620Quarles Div. Poems, Feast for Worms ix. ix, No crime unsifted, no sinne unpresented, Can lurke unseene. 1826Southey Lett. (1856) IV. 38 There must be abundant matter of unsifted information in our public collections. 1858Gladstone Homer I. 219 A poet who, as to facts, was at the mercy of unsifted information. 1882Pusey Paroch. & Cathedr. Serm. i. 3 The unsifted, unexamined conscience of a sinner.
3. Untried, inexperienced.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 102 You speake like a greene Girle, Vnsifted in such perillous Circumstance. |