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unsuˈpplied, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c.]
1. Not supplied or provided with something.
1599Queen Elizabeth in Moryson Itin. (1617) ii. 56 Therefore we command you, not onely to raise no more [men], when these shall be decaied, but to keepe them vnsupplied [sc. with money] that are already. 1618Hales Let. fr. Synod of Dort Gold. Rem. (1673) 23 When the Church was unsupplied, either by the death, or absence, or sickness of their Pastor. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. vii. 106 Forced to keep them [sc. divines] in the Church, lest otherwise it should be wholly unsupplied. 1712Steele Spect. No. 294 ⁋1 Every Man who..is unmindful of the unsupplied Distress of other Men. 1784Cowper Task v. 31 The cattle..wait Their wonted fodder; not like hung'ring man, Fretful if unsupply'd.
b. Const. with (also † by, of).
1616Hieron Wks. II. 37 They..shall not be left vnsupplyed of earthly things. 1652Davenant Verses to Author in Benlowes Theoph., Her Pow'r,..which unsupply'd By what wise Art would carefully provide, Is but love's lightning. 1740Johnson Blake Wks. 1787 IV. 360 The town was..unsupplied with almost every thing necessary for supporting a siege. 1844Stocqueler Handbk. Brit. India 254 Its principal defect, as a place besieged, would consist in its being..unsupplied with drinkable water.
2. Not met or satisfied; not made up or replaced.
1616Breton Good & Bad 2 A Worthy King:..his bosome must not be searched, his will not disobeyed, his wants not unsupplied, nor his place vnregarded. 1700Dryden Sigism. & Guiscard. 38 But, prodigal in ev'ry other Grant, Her Sire left unsupply'd her only Want. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 385 These defects,..should they, after all, continue unremedied and unsupplied, still [etc.]. 1788V. Knox Winter Even. lii. (1790) I. 453 Nor is the loss of a Goldsmith's..sentimental strain unsupplied by a Cowper.
3. Not provided or furnished.
1808G. Edwards Pract. Plan iv. 59 In fine, nothing need be left unsupplied in any respect. |