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unˈweeded, ppl. a.
[un-1 8. Cf. Du. ongewied.]
1. Of ground: Not cleared of weeds. Also fig.
In later use freq. in fig. context in echoes of quot. 1602.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. ii. 135 Oh fie, fie, 'tis an vnweeded Garden That growes to Seed; Things rank, and grosse in Nature Possesse it meerely. 1624Ussher Serm. 48 The field is the same, but weeded now, unweeded then. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 654 The human mind, like an unweeded garden, has been suffered to shoot up in wild disorder. 1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 19 The evils of a rank and un⁓weeded Press. 1824J. Telfer Border Ball. 32 The wood it was dern, unweeded, and wild. 1842New Monthly Mag. i. 400 All the rashness, insolence, and brutality of an un⁓weeded and newly-raised constabulary.
2. Not cleared away or rooted up as weeds. In quots. fig.
1626Jackson Creed viii. v. §1 All men by nature (that is from the unweeded relikes of our first parents' pride) are prone to over-value themselves. 1645Hammond Death-bed Repent. 29 The..hospitable soyle, contrary both to the thorny and stony ground, the one when the cares of the world are unweeded, unmortifyed, the other when [etc.]. |