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unˈtilled, ppl. a.
(un-1 8.)
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7667 Muche lond þer is As al wast & vntuled [v.rr. vntyled, -teled]. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xv. 451 Heth and vntiled erthe. 1382Wyclif Ezek. xxxvi. 36, I the Lord haue..plantid vntilied [1388 vntilid] thingus. 1445in Anglia XXVIII. 277 Londys which were vntilied. 1469Paston Lett. Suppl. (1901) 128 Thei byd them lete there land lye on tilled. 1538Starkey England 12 The erth..els schold haue leyne..rude and vntyllyd. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Eden 598 There lives the Sea-Oak in a little shell; There growes untill'd the ruddy Cochenel. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 245 An unbroken or untilled ground. 1674Traherne Poems Felicity (1910) 86 A Globe of Gold must Barren be, Untill'd & Useless. 1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Hoeing, The tilled earth receives an advantage from these dews, which the untilled does not. 1819Shelley England 7 A people starved and stabbed in the untilled field. 1874Stubbs Const. Hist. I. ii. 19 The wide forests and untilled plains are common property.
fig.1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 95 Fearing to offend hir..with my rude and vntilled toong. 1651Jer. Taylor Holy Dying ii. §4 His beastly nature, and desart and untilled manners. 1803Wordsw. Poems Nat. Indep. i. xx. 6 Men unto whom..minds not stinted or untilled are given. |