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unˈtested, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Intestate. Obs. (Cf. prec.)
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 409/1 The courte [of Rome]..aspired how to vsurpe the goods of them that die vntested. 1586Spenser Will Wks. 1882 I. p. xvii, Suche as dye untestyd. 1608in T. Pont's Acc. Cunningham (Maitl. Cl.) 183 Johne Blair..deceist vntestit in the moneth of Januar, 1604 zeiris.
2. Not tested or proved.
[1775Ash.] 1828–32Webster (citing Adams' Lect.). 1881Fitch Lect. Teach. 179 To leave him unquestioned and untested. 1884Church Bacon viii. 197 His whole doctrine of ‘Forms’..is an example of loose and slovenly use of unexamined and untested ideas. |