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unˈwasted, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not wasted or consumed.
1340–70Alex. & Dind. 236 Hit scholde nouht lesen his liht..While þe weke & þe waxe vn-wasted lasteþ. c1400Found. St. Bartholomew's 61 What myghte falle to them..that hastid with a desire to that place of vnwastid pite. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. xvii. 121 b, The fleshe of Christ is like a riche and vnwasted fountaine. 1625Donne Serm. 26 Whose meale and oyle God preserved unwasted. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharon. i. i. 178 So they preserve his name—A yet unwasted pyramid of fame. 1713Blackmore Creation i. 671 Why have those rocks so long unwasted stood? 1826Milman Anne Boleyn 35 Unwasted by the pains of earth, Thou didst bring forth the fair immortal birth. 1846Keble Lyra Innoc. 73 Through the dim chinks of this decaying earth Gleams, ever and anon, th' unwasted fire.
2. Not laid waste; undevastated.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) I. 362 b/1 The kyng might haue had his land vnwasted, and his treasure vnconsumed. 1785Burke Sp. Nabob of Arcot's Debts Wks. IV. 276 Several of the petty princes of the most southerly of the unwasted provinces. 1836Thirlwall Greece II. xvi. 331 Tempted by the prospect of saving their still unwasted fields and dwellings.
3. Not impaired by waste.
1758J. Dalrymple Ess. Feudal Property (ed. 2) 59 The lord came into the practice of giving a whole year's rent for the king's right of waste, and got the lands safe and unwasted to himself. |